Glasgow is going to have next generation super fast broadband sooner than expected which will be available to over 15,500 homes and business in the Cardonald, Crookston and Hillington parts of the city will be able to use the BT fibre broadband network that will deliver broadband speeds up to 40Mb.
Originally it was planned that early 2010 would be when the fibre broadband would be available but BT have brought this forward to Autumn 2009. They are installing 56 street cabinets and around 30 miles of fibre optic cable from the exchage to the cabinets (FTTC).
A BT spokesperson told ZDNet yesterday that the reason Glasgow has been brought forward is because of some of the issues they were facing in Muswell Hill that the cabinets were too big and unsightly for their neighbourhood, we are sure the residents in Glasgow who will start receiving the next generation broadband a few months sooner won’t be complaining!
Crazy nonsense. In Glasgow it should be called TrickleBand – BT sell you “up to 20mb” download speeds and then if you do a test on the line through BT it says the maximum possible on your line is 3mb! And you’ll be lucky if you get half that. Quite pathetic really for a counmtry that is supposed to have the world’s 5th largest economy.
Comment by Charlie Clark — December 4, 2009 @ 12:50 pm