BT has announced that it will be boosting its broadband speeds to a whopping 80Mbps by the end of the year following the company’s announcement that it scored an annual profit of £1.72bn last year… so they can afford to improve the service!
BT customers who are on the BT Infinity service, which currently offers a maximum of 40Mbps, will be able to get the enhanced 80Mbps update via their fibre to the cabinet (FTTC) service.
The 80Mbps service is currently being trialled with BT and if the trial goes well then users can expect to have the speedier upgrade at the end of the year. The new super-fast service will then be extended across BT’s entire FTTC network in 2012.
The update is not a physical upgrade so no roads will need to be dug up in your area – it’s more a case of BT increasing the amount of optical spectrum allocated within the fibre services from 7MHz to 17MHz – which means the upgrade is cheap and wont effect you.
BT’s main competitor Virgin Media already offers a super-fast broadband service at 100Mbps via its cable networks, so it’s about time for BT to start to try and catch up.
This will surely raise the bar in the fibre optic broadband war that is currently going on, but it would seem that currently the consumers are the winners.
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