Zen Internet are to offer fibre optic broadband services in September.

Zen’s fibre broadband will be available to areas where BT’s fibre optic network has been installed and will be able to offer broadband speeds of up to 40Mb and say that there will be a minimum download speed of 15Mb.

Although no specific prices for Zen’s fibre broadband are yet known it is believed that the fibre options will be around £5-£10 more than standard ADSL broadband costs when launched.

Zen has been working with BT to trial fibre optic broadband services since July last year, they are to start commercial trials of the service in mid June so that they can hopefully be ready for the full launch in September. Anyone interested in taking part in Zens commercial fibre broadband trials should email fibre@zen.co.uk and include your name, address and telephone number where they will then check to see if you are able to take part in their tests (basically your local telephone exchange will need to have the fibre broadband deployed from it).

Last week we also saw that Zen Internet doubled the usage limits available on it’s Lite, Active, Pro and Office broadband packages.