BT increases UK broadband speeds
Sunday, March 5th, 2006BT has announced that it will be upgrading over five thousand exchanges in the coming months, allowing broadband users to access speeds of up to 8Mb/s. Actual speeds will depend, as usual, on the distance between the user and their local exchange, but BT estimates that 78% of its users will be able to access services providing 4Mb/s, and 42% of homes will have access to speeds of 6Mb/s or greater.
Although I’ve never really felt the need for a connection faster than 1Mb/s (in fact I’m on 512Kb/s at the moment and it’s fast enough for most of what I do), I’ve certainly no objection to increased speeds, and I suspect that they’ll be needed if technologies such as video on demand and live television over the Internet are to take off.