BT Group to extend 8 MBit/s trial to more areas |
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Tue, 18 Oct 2005 06:05
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LONDON: BT Group Plc plans to extend the reach of its 8 MBit/s ADSL broadband Max service in November and depending on the outcome, the company proposes to introduce full-fledged 8Mbit/s service across its network next year.
The service, when it becomes operational on a full scale, will facilitate introduction of interactive gaming and streaming video and audio in addition to the traditional applications of email and web browsing. In the final run, Internet will be comparable with a cable TV service, with much more facilities and efficiency.
The move is seen as a sequel to the announcement by BBC recently that it will offer downloads of its TV programmes and bring in TV over broadband.
The experiment, which had been carried out earlier in London and the Strathclyde region of Scotland will now cover 25 exchanges, the telecom company said, extending it to 53 exchanges later. It will cover some 50,000 subscribers at the beginning and 150,000 by the end. The exchanges to be covered in this phase will be West London, Cornwall, Northern Ireland and South Glamorgan. The trials will cover the BT Wholesale, the BT Datastream service and BT IPstream services.
BT Wholesale's managing director, products strategy, Cameron Rejali said the trial represents a significant step forward in the development of the company's higher speed broadband products. The company is committed to ensuring that everyone benefits from the broadband revolution whether they live in valleys, villages or city centres.
The participating service providers will be able to offer end-customers the fastest broadband service their line can reliably support with rate-adaptive downstream line speeds of up to 8 MBit/s.
BT will invite service providers to take part in the trial. Individual customer lines for the trial will be selected by the service providers, while the procedures will be those followed by BT for its ADSL broadband services.
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