Our G.fast trials have raised nearly 25,000 smiles…
Our commitment on Ultrafast broadband (that’s speeds of 100Mbs or more) is to make it available to 12m premises by 2020. 10m of those will be by using G.fast, and thanks to some fantastic work by teams across Infrastructure Delivery, Service Delivery, Customer, Commercial & Propositions and CIO, we’ve now taken our Ultrafast G.fast to almost 25,000 homes as part of our pilot in Cherry Hinton and Gillingham.
G.fast is a clever piece of technology that helps us take faster speeds to more people. It works by attaching a pod to the side of the existing copper cabinet which ultracharges our network to speeds of up to an incredible 330Mbps. But it’s not just our innovation that we’re proud of – it’s the pace at which we’re deploying it, too. In November we told you that we’d connected our first live customer, and in the next week or so, we’ll be starting the extension of our pilot rollout to an additional 17 locations and over 100,000 premises. But for now, it’s 25,000 down and 9,975,000 to go!
It might just be a drop in the ocean, but it’s a significant one.
Kim Mears
MD, Infrastructure Delivery
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