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Openreach networks division announced their plans to extend the trial of super-fast broadband technology to new locations at Highams Park in northeast London and Bradwell Abbey in Milton Keynes. It has promised that 20,000 homes will enjoy speeds of up to 100 MB by next March because of this trial. These new locations are an extension of last year’s initiative, which covered the site of Ebbsfleet Valley in Kent.

Using the new fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) technology, customers’ premises will be connected to the exchange through fibre optic cables, thereby bypassing the existing copper wiring that are notorious for their slow speeds.

BT is also scheduled to use fibre-to-the-cabinet (FTTC) technology, which uses optic fibre to connect the exchange to the street and copper to connect the last leg from street to the customer’s residence. Both infrastructures offer an upload speed of up to 10 Mb. BT revealed its plans to provide super-fast broadband to 1.5 million customers by next summer, and it expressed its openness to accommodate new broadband providers in its initiative.

David Campbell, the managing director of next generation access at Openreach, stressed that the trail site of Ebbsfleet had provided good feedback and had helped BT to rectify its errors. He also revealed that BT is working closely with communications providers and regional development authorities in running trials in all the sites.

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