BT competition seeks out UK's next generation broadband hotspots
Communities that are keen to obtain fibre-based broadband are being asked to publicly declare their desire for high-speed net access.
BT will log responses to a website to get a better idea of the potential demand for fibre-based services.
The telecoms firm said the results would influence its future plans on where it deploys the technology.
BT said it would commit to wire up the five exchanges showing the highest demand for fibre.
It said this could mean that commercially viable exchanges would be the first to get the fibre-based service or that exchanges thought to be non-viable would be added to its deployment plans.
The survey, dubbed The Race to Infinity, will start early this month and run until the end of the year.
VIEW - Suffolk Online's view is that this is a duplication of work that is aleady going on with the Suffolk Broadband Partnership (see www.suffolkbroadband.net website for further information) and this is not the joined up approach we all need. This competition will simply serve to pit communities against communities and not serve to provide the crucial facilities all our rural communities need. This will also not provide the answer for those in most need as these particular communities will simply not be eligible.
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- Submitted on: Tuesday 5th October 2010 @ 9:13 am
- Submitted by: SOL Support
