BT broadband customers are to have their broadband speeds boosted from 8Mb up to 20Mb as BT upgrades to ADSL2+ technology to their broadband customers.
BT has been running a trial with 60,000 customers who have been able to enjoy the free broadband speed increase and now they are going to roll this out to more of their network.
To begin with 549 of the telephone exchanges on BT’s 21 CN platform will have the service extended to them, this is around 40% of BT’s network. By March 2010 BT plans to have this extended to cover 55% of their network although this depends up on customer demand for it. We can’t see why any of BT’s 4.8 million broadband customers wouldn’t be wanting to have a large speed increase in their area for free though.
On top of this, BT are also going to offer some of their home and business customers a Broadband Accelerator (I-Plate) for free, that is designed to cut out electrical interference in a line which will increase broadband speeds and reliability.
It is a good move by BT who have in recent months been left behind a bit in the broadband speed front, especially by the likes of Virgin Media who are plugging how fast they can offer broadband on their fibre broadband network and how fast they will be able to offer in future stating headline speeds faster than BT have said there own fibre network will offer.