BE Broadband and O2 Broadband are looking to launch their own fibre broadband service which they hope will see commercial trials starting later this year.
BE & O2 are sister companies with BE launching the first UK ADSL2+ network which helped make their name as a company aiming to deliver faster broadband speeds.
In a Blog post on the BE website, Chris Stenning, the MD, said:
“So our plans for fibre have to be something unlimited and unshaped too, otherwise it simply defeats the object of having greater speed. It’s great to be told you could get speeds up to some high level, but with traffic management it is unlikely you’ll get it for long. We are unlikely to be the cheapest in the market but we are determined to be the best.
Practically, we’d really like to launch our service later this year. We’re crunching the numbers on a variety of different routes that would allow us to deliver our vision of fibre. We think a pre-registration programme will help us work out where there is demand from our existing members.”
The O2 statement also mentions about pre-registration for existing O2 broadband customers. What neither statement says is if it is FTTH (Fibre To The Home) or FTTC (Fibre To The Cabinet) that they are looking to install, we would hazard a guess that it would be FTTC. We will just have to wait later in the year to hear any more about the possible BE Fibre broadband plans.
In a post in the official