Glasgow has been selected as the third location that is getting to trial BT’s Fibre To The Cabinet (FTTC) next generation high speed broadband.
The trial is available to business customers who are in the Glasgow Halfway area and will allow these business to trial the FTTC which will offer them broadband download speeds of up to 40Mb and upload speeds of 2Mb. The trial will run until the start of April 2010.
A survey conducted by BT of 7,200 SMEs (Small and Medium sized Enterprises) that had faster broadband found that 61% believed that faster broadband had a positive impact on their business.
The survey also found that 28% of these SMEs were using faster broadband to improve their websites and another 25% so that they could use higher bandwidth applications and technology online.
BT are aiming to have 40% of homes and businesses in the UK enabled to receive next generation fibre broadband by 2012.