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[Bowdon]

BT Confirm Tech Details for Summer UK Pilot of 300Mbps G.fast Broadband

Telecoms operator BT has revealed the technical capabilities for their forthcoming pilot of “ultrafast” 300-500Mbps G.fast technology (consumer ISP products should start at 160Mbps), which will be rolled out to cover 25,000 premises in Cambridgeshire and Kent this summer.

BT currently plans to make the new G.fast (aka – GEA-NGA2 G.fast or ITU G.9700/9701) service available to 10 million premises by 2020, with “most of the UK” likely to be done by 2025 (this probably equates to around 60% UK coverage). Initially G.fast will only offer top download speeds of ‘up to’ 300Mbps (50Mbps upload), before later increasing to 500Mbps.

[niemand]

Excellent. By 2020 I may finally have a faster line than I did in 2011.

[broadstairs]

Be nice to know what part of Kent? 

Stuart

[KIAB]

There are new pilots (12,500 premises in each location), which will be conducted in Cherry Hinton (Cambridgeshire) and Gillingham (Kent) coming this sumer.

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2016/05/bt-release-tech-details-uk-summer-pilot-300mbps-g-fast-broadband.html

[WWWombat]

The original plans were Cherry Hinton, Cambridgeshire and Gillingham, Kent.

[WWWombat]

BTW: Discussion of BT's STIN - the trigger behind this article - has been going on for a couple of days over here.