British Telecom extends U.K. broadband coverage
September 17, 2009
Throughout the U.K. there are many rural areas that lack the infrastructure to receive broadband internet connections. British Telecom has now announced that with government funding it will be able to bring its Broadband Enabling Technology to households that currently struggle to get a dialup connection. The announcement is part of a government promise to bring all households in the U.K. the ability to receive broadband by 2012.
British Telecom estimates that at present 3 million homes lack the capability of receiving broadband and says that its new Bet will increase the current range of telephone exchanges running broadband out to customers from five kilometers to twelve kilometers. This will enable households twice as far from the exchanges to receive the internet. The trials have met with success in Scotland and will now be rolled out to households and businesses in Cumbria, Berkshire, Sussex and Norfolk.
Managing director of service delivery at Openreach, John Small said that he is excited by the new technology and wants to work with authorities to see how best to get the service out to customers.
However some are not so impressed. Lindsey Annison who lives in Cumbria has been campaigning for better broadband for some time now and reckons the new technology will be useless and claims that it is not broadband. She says that an experienced telecommunications company should be trying far harder.
Analyst Ian Fogg says that Bet is a move in the right direction although it will not necessarily cure all problems. He did go on to say however that the service was a lot better than some that are on offer.
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