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BT has decided to expand the reach of the fastest internet that it has planned to provide to homes and businesses across the UK. It had previously planned to provide broadband of 100Mb speeds to one million houses by the end of 2012 - with the possibility for final upgrade to 1Gb in case there is a demand for fast internet. It had also planned to provide internet of 40Mb speed to more than nine million houses.

However, the recent announcement by BT suggests that it has decided to extend these services to a larger number of customers and now it aims to bring the fast fibre optic broadband service to 2.5 million homes by 2012 instead of one million. This announcement has been influenced by a study by Cisco that stated that among 66 countries, the UK stands 31 in terms of speed.

Currently, BT provides internet of 24Mb speed via copper wire network. The proposed increase in speed will cost it £1.5 billion.

CEO of Openreach Steve Robertson said that BT is totally committed to providing fast internet to users. He added that the UK is already leading in terms of broadband availability to its citizens and that it is time now to improve the speeds as well. He further said that BT is also responding to the demands of the service providers who have been asking for expansion of FTTP technology for a long time.

For information on your ISP and corresponding broadband speed, try using the broadband check from Broadband Genie to get a snapshot of your current download and upload speeds. It’s a good site to compare BT Broadband prices and service with Virgin Broadband deals and the other top internet service providers such as O2 Broadband.

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