More communities near Plymouth to get superfast broadband
BT today announced plans to make faster broadband available to a further 172,000 homes and businesses in the South West.
Areas including Ashburton, Buckfasleigh, Salcombe, Yealmpton and Wembury are amongst the latest locations in the region to be included in the roll-out of BT’s next generation broadband service delivered over copper lines.
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They are due to be upgraded by the Spring of next year.
The BT investment will make available download speeds of up to 20 megabits per second (Mbps) – more than double the speed previously available from BT.
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The faster broadband is already available in more than 200 South West communities and available to more than 1.5 million premises.
The latest exchanges to go live include Cullompton and Colaton Raleigh.
By next Spring 77 per cent of homes and businesses in the region will be served by an exchange which has been upgraded to deliver these higher speeds. The new service is available on an open, wholesale basis to all companies providing broadband.
Ben Rhodes, chief executive of the Devon and Cornwall Business Council, said: “This kind of major investment has never been more vital. It is an essential part of building a more prosperous region in these economically uncertain times. Businesses can use the technology to be more efficient and competitive, whilst individuals can develop their education and skills for a fast changing world. Efficient, high-speed communications are critical to our future success.”
Jon Reynolds, BT’s South West regional director, said: “The rapid roll-out of faster broadband offers a great opportunity for the South West. It is an important part of BT’s plans to help ensure that the region is able to take full advantage of the communications revolution.
“Around 70 per cent of South West businesses and households now have access to this technology and within about a year this will have risen to well in excess of three quarters.
“The technology is having a major impact on our everyday lives and changing for the better the way we live, helping businesses work more efficiently and flexibly and to find new markets. And communities are better able to make use of the huge range of on-line educational and entertainment opportunities available."
Comments
by crazypenguin
Tuesday, May 22 2012, 11:19PM
“ah yes my mistake i got it mixed up, however still this is why we see fluctuations in speeds in this country until the system is completely fibre optic as it is in the far east, there will always be that portion of copper cable slowing the signal down and the quality of your houses line affects the quality of your signal day to day.”
by Nevman
Tuesday, May 22 2012, 11:02PM
“Sorry, crazypenguin, but you've got the wrong end of the stick. I had Infinity put in a week ago today, and I watched and chatted to the engineer. Behind the wall socket it's still the same copper wires, leading to the on-street junction box which is now connected to the exchange by fibre optic cable. The advantage is that the only part of the system which remains copper-based is my exclusive house line - hence the speed increase.”
by crazypenguin
Tuesday, May 22 2012, 9:38PM
“hstmtu4000 not completly true however, the problem is no matter what company you use at some point even with fibre optic lines the signal is still sent via copper cable from the exchange, when they say fibre optic they mean the line going to your home is fibre optic, that still however has to connect to the old copper cables as we still have the original network in place of these.
True fibre optic is available in countries with a lot more modern infrastructure like korea where the entire network is fibre optic, my friend is teaching english over there and they get blazing fast speeds as the norm he gets about twice anything we can get over here even with the fastest packages.
You dont really need the fastest most expensive ones however, im with virgin on the 20meg package, i was on 50meg but i relised i didnt need it, it was a waste of money I do online gaming over xbox live and other services and i play a lot of vids and 20meg is more then enough to run that.”
by unhappysteveo
Tuesday, May 22 2012, 9:25PM
“dont believe the marketing hype. 'up to' 20mb is a cop out way of saying you'll be lucky to get 10mb or less. Also just because it's BT who are upgrading the exchanges doesn't mean you have to go with BT to benefit from it. shop around there are plenty of better companies.”
by hstmtu4000
Tuesday, May 22 2012, 8:17PM
“Bt Infinity and indeed Virgin use Fibre optic cables where distance is not a problem unlike standard broadband which uses the old copper telephone wire where distance from the exchange does seriously effect broadband speed.Fortunately I live in the north of Plymouth which has access to both Bts and Virgins fibre optic network.If you still have to rely on copper cable then unfortunately your still stuck in the broadband stoneage.I currently get between 20 and 30 Mbps from Virgin.”
by bluebell2
Tuesday, May 22 2012, 5:38PM
“Anything got to be faster than virgin . bluebell”
by m_dalston
Tuesday, May 22 2012, 4:18PM
“Bruzercat - it is only a "catch" in that the speed relates to the distance you are from the telephone box (not the exchange). Of course if you have any real experiences regarding the subject - then why not share those instead of writing some suggestive claptrap?”
by gedonyajanner
Tuesday, May 22 2012, 3:37PM
“I did mention a few weeks / months back that BT infinity was available in quite a few of the suburbs in Plymouth, esp the northern ones ( crownhill, southway, woolwell, Tamerton foliot, widewell ect). Don't be confused BT broadband isn't BT Infinity. I was getting 0.5mb till I switched 6 weeks ago I now get on average 26mbs, that's 25.5mbps faster than before.
Go on google look on the infinity website, there is a postcode/phoneline checker that will tell you what speed you can get.”
by Bruzercat
Tuesday, May 22 2012, 3:35PM
“Remember folks - this is a promise of UP TO 20 Mbps. It's the 'up to' that's the catch.”
by m_dalston
Tuesday, May 22 2012, 2:00PM
“Didn't we have a similar article a few weeks ago? I upgraded to this BT Infinity after reading one of the comments on here - I didn't even realise it was available to our premises. We now get 40MBit download speed ..”