Sky UK (Sky Broadband) has confirmed to ISPreview.co.uk that they are about to start trials of a new 18Mbps unlimited usage Sky Fibre Lite (FTTC) product with around 20,000 customers, which is designed to tempt those on their slower ADSL2+ based service to upgrade to FTTC for a better speed.The new service is based off BTOpenreach’s speed capped 18Mbps (2Mbps upload) Fibre-to-the-Cabinet (FTTC / VDSL) product, which was officially announced back in April 2016 and is due to enter a 6-month trial via a special offer to ISPs that will start from 15th June 2016 (full summary). Sky’s trial will make use of this, albeit launching in July.
