BE Broadband are looking to offer even faster broadband speeds by offering fibre optic broadband, but admit that they can’t afford to lay down it’s own fibre network down.
In a post in the official Be Broadband Blog, Tom Williams the managing director of Be Broadband had the following to say:
“We really want to offer you a fibre solution. We want to keep providing faster and faster speeds. However, we can’t afford to lay our own fibre network (unless, of course, Alex agrees to sell his collection of antique Happy Meal toys). Right now, we’re looking at the wholesale products available.
If we do this, then there’s likely to be some initial restrictions on what we can offer in terms of speed, support, and the general customer experience. But, for many of you, it will be faster.
Whatever we offer, it won’t be perfect straight away – though it will improve over time. We want to get your input while we’re investigating the options: we want to build the BE fibre product around you as much as possible.”
Be Broadband will be making use of the fibre network that BT are installing around the country. On the main part it is Fibre To The Cabinet (FTTC) that BT are installing which will offer broadband speeds up to 40Mb, for a few lucky people there will be Fibre To The Premises/Home (FTTH) but this is mainly going to be installed in new build areas that will be able to offer much faster broadband speeds up to 100Mb.
BT are investing £2.5Bn in rolling out next generation fibre broadband over the next few years which should be available to around two thirds of the UK once completed. It will be this large fibre network that BE Broadband will be utilising on a wholesale level to provide fibre broadband deals for customers.
BE currently have an offer running offering 2 months free broadband from BE.