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BT racks up another 114 exchanges for fibre broadband

...s rollout will be FTTC, the remaining quarter is supposed to be fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP), which offers speeds closer to 100Mbps, with scope... Read more

14 September, 2011 by David Meyer

BT to revive brownfield fibre-to-the-premises trials

...BT's brownfield fibre-to-the-premises trials are to go ahead before the end of... Read more

20 July, 2010 by Jack Clark

Copper not dead for super-fast broadband, says BT

...speed out of its copper broadband network rather than depending on full fibre-to-the-premises connectivity, a Westminster e-Forum heard on Thursday. The... Read more

11 November, 2011 by Ben Woods

Blocked ducts delay BT's rollout of FTTP

...BT's fibre-to-the-premises services will not go live this summer as originally... Read more

25 May, 2011 by David Meyer

First customer goes live on 100Mbps fibre trial

...PlusNet has claimed the first customer to go live on BT's fibre-to-the-premises fast broadband trial. PlusNet customer 'herbiejhopkins' was connected on... Read more

21 July, 2010 by David Meyer

BT to give 41 market towns fibre broadband

...to 40Mbps and uploads of up to 10Mbps. BT is also trialling fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) connectivity that can provide downstream speeds of up... Read more

13 January, 2011 by Ben Woods

Virgin Media to trial 1.5Gbps cable in London

The ISP has announced plans to trial hybrid fibre-coaxial connections that are 240 times faster than the average home broadband speed in the UK Read more

20 April, 2011 by Ben Woods

BT doubles download speeds for Infinity broadband

...than copper cable. BT also offers a 100Mbps service, delivered by full fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP), but it this is only available to "a... Read more

11 April, 2012 by Ben Woods

BT sees fibre finish line with addition of 73 towns

...asking for fibre to be run all the way to their buildings (fibre to the premises, or FTTP), rather than just to their closest street... Read more

20 March, 2012 by David Meyer

TalkTalk launches 80Mbps service as BT plans the same

...In a blog post, Plusnet referred to the limitations of FTTC. Unlike fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP), which BT is set to offer with speeds... Read more

13 March, 2012 by David Meyer

Virgin to bump 50Mbps plans up to 120Mbps

...FTTC) service to around 80Mbps. In addition, it said it will use fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) technology to deliver speeds of up to 300Mbps... Read more

16 January, 2012 by Ben Woods

Hyperoptic offers Londoners 1Gbps fibre broadband

...Be Broadband, has launched with an offer of one-gigabit-per-second fibre-to-the-premises connectivity for some properties in London. No other ISP... Read more

14 September, 2011 by David Meyer

BT names 156 towns for next fibre rollout phase

...connections will be a combination of fibre-to-the-cabinet (FTTC) and fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) and will offer speeds of up to 40Mbps... Read more

7 April, 2011 by Ben Woods

Broadband cash lands in Lancashire's coffers

...on a commercial basis alone," BT said. BT also said that its fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) technology — which will deliver download speeds of... Read more

3 April, 2012

BT chooses Oxfordshire village for 'fibre-only' trial

...copper in delivering ultra-fast broadband to residents. BT will begin trialling fibre-to-the-premises connections from 2013 in the Oxfordshire village of Deddington... Read more

29 March, 2012 by Ben Woods

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