BT Broadband Trial = 10 times faster Internet

Thousands of South Wales residents will be amongst the first customers to reap the benefits of BT’s new ‘super-fast’ broadband trial. The Internet users of Cardiff and Taffs will find themselves exploring the Internet and downloading files at unprecedented speeds early on in 2010 after BT have installed the fibrotic broadband.

This being a technology blog, I’d better explain the vital statistics. The internet speed will run up to a maximum speed of 40 mbps (megabits per second) with an even better speed of 60 Mbps available to a lucky 16’000 or so homes and businesses making those connections more than ten times as fast as the current speed in UK homes.

Impressive as it is the trial has not been cheap, a whopping £1.5 billion pounds has been earmarked for the project. This represents the single largest investment in fast Broadband technology ever seen in this country.

A few very lucky computer users in Cardiff and North London will have the opportunity to test out the super fast internet speeds this summer ahead of the main roll-out.

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