BT Launches Superfast Infinity Broadband

BT Retail has confirmed costs for its new superfast broadband service, BT Infinity. The consumer version of this accelerated service uses fibre optic technology to offer download speeds of up to 40Mb/s from £19.99 per month. BT claims that upstream speeds of up to 10Mb/s will be the fastest in the UK.

The superfast broadband service available to businesses will be known as BT Business Total Broadband Fibre. From 25th January, new and existing BT Total Broadband and BT Business customers located in an enabled exchange area will automatically be eligible for the up to 40 Mb/s broadband service.

Benefits will include:

Households with multiple computers/internet devices will enjoy simultaneous use of services such as social networking and sharing of media.
Entertainment services will be quicker, offering high-quality streaming of popular video content from iPlayer and YouTube and downloads up to seven times faster on iTunes.
Online gaming will be up to 30 per cent faster, giving gamers a real advantage over the competition.

This is all part of BT’s grand plan with making superfast broadband available to at least 40% of the UK, some 10 million homes and businesses, by the summer of 2012. The company has pledged to spend £1.5 billion themselves, the UK's biggest single commercial investment, in rolling out fibre to the cabinet (FTTC) and fibre to the premise (FTTP) services.

Published 28/01/2010