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Published Date: 15 July 2008
BT today urged the Scottish government and other public sector bodies to help bring super-fast broadband to Scotland.
A £1.5 billion pound BT plan to roll out fibre-based broadband will result in a range of speeds up to 100Mb/s becoming available for up to 10 million UK homes by 2012. And the firm says it will be those areas showing the greatest eagerness to use the new services which will benefit first. BT said today it would focus its investment in places where there was a strong public sector interest in partnering with BT and using the new services.

Much of the UK is already set to receive advanced new copper-based broadband services of up to 24Mb/s – up to three times the headline speeds currently available for most homes and businesses.

Brendan Dick, director of BT Scotland, said: "Scotland is already a tremendous broadband success story and this is a great opportunity for the nation to be on the front page of the next chapter. BT is keen to invest further in Scotland so today I am urging the Scottish public sector to work with us to ensure the funds are directed to our country."





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  • Last Updated: 15 July 2008 10:44 AM
  • Source: Edinburgh Evening News
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Technology
 
1

Boggle fey the Bog,

15/07/2008 12:53:37
What happened to all the fibre optic cables BT put in during the 70's and 80's?
Millions of pounds were spent upgrading the 'telephone system' in the 70's and 80's with fibre optic cables by the then publicly owned British Telecom.
So can anyone tell me where have all the fibre optic cables gone?
Sounds like they are trying to get paid twice for a job already completed!!
2

Boy Wonder,

15/07/2008 13:19:07
FREE BROADBAND FOR EVERYBODY!!!!
3

Shave,

Edinburgh 15/07/2008 13:23:53
FREE ADVERTS FOR BT!!!!
4

I love to eat Sellotape,

15/07/2008 13:46:44
FREE NELSON MANDELA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
5

Neal! Whit? Haud yer Whisht!!,

15/07/2008 15:57:06
FREE DOM FOR THE MASSES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
6

Applecrumble,

Balerno 16/07/2008 05:57:51
HEY BT!!

VIRGIN HAVE BEAT YOU TO IT!!

WE'VE HAD FIBRE OPTIC FOR MONTHS NOW!!!

*blows raspberry*
7

Spicey,

Glasgow 16/07/2008 14:56:14
Applecrumble,

Yes but its rubbish. I'm with Virgin and it doesn't work. Its supposed to be 2Mb (the cheapest option) but its always throttled back so far that its slower than when i was on 512Kb with Sky.
8

Mr Fuzzy,

Edinburgh 19/07/2008 02:42:51
#1
The fibre-optic cables were used to update the old Strouger telephone exchanges to System X, BT's digital telephone network for ISDN and telephony (humans talking). That system now has to be upgraded to support higher speeds as more information is being exchanged as computer data rather than human conversations.

BT now want to upgrade the cables between the telephone exchanges and the local distribution boxes, to fibre-optics (ie. the green boxes that can be seen on every street). This might be as simple as sliding new fibre-optic cables along underground ducting, or it might involves digging up the streets.

BT have to do this, just to keep up with Virgin Media, but it looks like they are trying to use this to get profitable public sector contracts.
9

jimb4abobor2,

Edinburgh 28/07/2008 02:43:58
well well well what ave we ere now faster tea from fibre-optics eh well whaever lets get it in as im waiting and would use it but i think at the moment they will also ave to do there exchanges as comes out of PC in digital to exchange then converts to analogue and out the other end into digital again this is a slow process lets go the whole hog and just do T1 line upgrade that will be so fast you wont get time to blink or even ave ure tea this year would be good.
10

Kipling,

23/12/2008 02:28:46
The key phrase here is "UP TO...". It does NOT mean that the average speed you will get is 100m/bs. It depends how far you are physically from the ISP and what time you get on the internet. These and other factors all REDUCE the speed, including proximity to the public sector organisations which might teaming up with BT.
11

La5t_minit,

25/02/2009 14:26:44
They need to get this done quickly before their customer complaints hit new records. Ever since they started rolling out their waste of space BT Vision service, every broadband user has had their speed decreased at peak times as the bandwidth required to supply BT vision and Broadband users just isnt available.

Their complaints department is almost at bursting point with unhappy customers who are paying for a hi speed service but receiving poor rate quality.

 

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