BT's network division Openreach has announced plans to roll out Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) broadband to 3 million addresses in the next two years. Improving on the original target of 2 million homes by the same deadline, the expanded rollout will mean that more homes and businesses will be able to access speeds of up to 1Gbps (1,000Mbps). Openreach has also demonstrated that 100Gbps is possible over its FTTP lines, meaning that the tech is well placed to meet future demand. Beyond that, the network says it wants to pass at least 10 million addresses by the mid-2020s and it doesn't want to stop there. CEO of Openreach Clive Selley said: "Three million by 2020 might not seem a lot – but connecting every individual property to a full fibre connection is a massive task and takes significant time, engineering and manpower. The job of "fibering" the UK will take decades." Recently, the government announced that a milestone in its Broadband Delivery for the UK (BDUK) scheme had been hit; 95 per cent of properties across the country can now order superfast broadband - anything faster than 24Mbps - from a variety of ISPs, most of them using the Openreach network, as BT happened to be awarded the majority of the BDUK contracts. In most cases, people passed by BDUK projects will have been able to order Fibre to the Cabinet (FTTC)-based services, which can deliver download speeds up to 80Mbps. While that’s nowhere near the bandwidth you'd be able to get with an FTTP line, Selley says that this achievement will act as "a stepping stone to something much bigger". As well as installing more new FTTP lines, a side effect of this is that Openreach will now have to reassess where it might roll out G.fast. G.fast is something of a halfway point between FTTC and FTTP and the first G.fast-based services from BT went on sale recently, promising maximum speeds of 152Mbps and 314Mbps and guaranteeing 100Mbps at all times. An Openreach spokesperson confirmed to PC Mag UK that today's announcement means that places in not line for an upgrade to G.fast might now get a look in: "By extending the FTTP target, we need to re-look at our ultrafast commitments and mix [of technologies]. We've said before that it doesn't make sense to rollout G.fast and overbuild with FTTP. Today's news means we're increasing FTTP build commitment by 50 per cent. That will inevitably mean we'll have to reassess where to deploy G.fast," the spokesperson said. BT currently plans to roll out G.fast to 10 million premises by 2020, but this, the spokesperson added, would be affected by how popular takeup of FTTP is: "G.fast is still very much part of the ultrafast strategy and in many cases will be the best option where access is difficult or expensive, so has significant role to play. How much we build will inevitably depend on the success of our FTTP rollout." Either way, it'll be a while before we start to see FTTP-based services from BT landing in broadband comparison tables. Areas already earmarked for BT's first big FTTP build include Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Leeds, Liverpool, London, and Manchester, and work will apparently begin in these areas in the next few months. Selley however insists that this doesn't mean that countryside communities, which have generally been poorly served by telecoms infrastructure upgrades, will be ignored. "Fibre first is more than just a programme. It's about how Openreach thinks, and is approaching the challenge of building a large-scale FTTP network for the UK. That means wherever we can in the future, we will build 'fibre first' - including in rural areas." "BDUK Durham Cable team9" by BT's BDUK partnerships fibre rollout photography is licensed under CC BY 2.0.
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BT's network division Openreach has announced plans to roll out Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) broadband to 3 million addresses in the next two years. Improving on the original target of 2 million homes by the same deadline, the expanded rollout will mean that more homes and businesses will be able to access speeds of up to 1Gbps (1,000Mbps). Openreach has also demonstrated that 100Gbps is possible over its FTTP lines, meaning that the tech is well placed to meet future demand. Beyond that, the network says it wants to pass at least 10 million addresses by the mid-2020s and it doesn't want to stop there. CEO of Openreach Clive Selley said: "Three million by 2020 might not seem a lot – but connecting every individual property to a full fibre connection is a massive task and takes significant time, engineering and manpower. The job of "fibering" the UK will take decades." Recently, the government announced that a milestone in its Broadband Delivery for the UK (BDUK) scheme had been hit; 95 per cent of properties across the country can now order superfast broadband - anything faster than 24Mbps - from a variety of ISPs, most of them using the Openreach network, as BT happened to be awarded the majority of the BDUK contracts. In most cases, people passed by BDUK projects will have been able to order Fibre to the Cabinet (FTTC)-based services, which can deliver download speeds up to 80Mbps. While that’s nowhere near the bandwidth you'd be able to get with an FTTP line, Selley says that this achievement will act as "a stepping stone to something much bigger". As well as installing more new FTTP lines, a side effect of this is that Openreach will now have to reassess where it might roll out G.fast. G.fast is something of a halfway point between FTTC and FTTP and the first G.fast-based services from BT went on sale recently, promising maximum speeds of 152Mbps and 314Mbps and guaranteeing 100Mbps at all times. An Openreach spokesperson confirmed to PC Mag UK that today's announcement means that places in not line for an upgrade to G.fast might now get a look in: "By extending the FTTP target, we need to re-look at our ultrafast commitments and mix [of technologies]. We've said before that it doesn't make sense to rollout G.fast and overbuild with FTTP. Today's news means we're increasing FTTP build commitment by 50 per cent. That will inevitably mean we'll have to reassess where to deploy G.fast," the spokesperson said. BT currently plans to roll out G.fast to 10 million premises by 2020, but this, the spokesperson added, would be affected by how popular takeup of FTTP is: "G.fast is still very much part of the ultrafast strategy and in many cases will be the best option where access is difficult or expensive, so has significant role to play. How much we build will inevitably depend on the success of our FTTP rollout." Either way, it'll be a while before we start to see FTTP-based services from BT landing in broadband comparison tables. Areas already earmarked for BT's first big FTTP build include Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Leeds, Liverpool, London, and Manchester, and work will apparently begin in these areas in the next few months. Selley however insists that this doesn't mean that countryside communities, which have generally been poorly served by telecoms infrastructure upgrades, will be ignored. "Fibre first is more than just a programme. It's about how Openreach thinks, and is approaching the challenge of building a large-scale FTTP network for the UK. That means wherever we can in the future, we will build 'fibre first' - including in rural areas." "BDUK Durham Cable team9" by BT's BDUK partnerships fibre rollout photography is licensed under CC BY 2.0.