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BT brings ADSL2+ to 150 more towns

By Hani Megerisi

Posted on 12 Mar 2010 at 15:28

BT has announced the rollout of faster ADSL speeds to an additional 6% of the country.

The up to 24Mbits/sec ADSL2+ technology will arrive in a further 148 exchanges, bringing BT's nationwide coverage up to 61% of households.

You can see the full list of new exchanges here.

BT is hoping to bring ADSL2+ to three quarters of the country (20 million homes) by spring 2011.

The ADSL2+ rollout is progressing alongside BT's fibre deployment, which brings download speeds of up to 40 or 100Mbits/sec, and upload speeds of up to 10Mbits/sec.

The telecoms firm said that 25% of this rollout will be the faster fibre-to-the-premises connections.

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Don't you believe it

I would just like to say to all of those people on the named exchanges - believe it when you see it. My local exchange, Kingsley, showed on Samknows (which appears to be the only source of information. BT don't seem to give anything away) as being upgraded in Q4 2009. My ISP emailed me and asked if I wanted to take advantage of this and upgrade. And then... silence. Nothing happened. Samknows now shows "Not available". My ISP doesn't know anything. BT don't bother to reply, and I've wasted too much energy on that shower to follow it up. Others on the ISP's forum are in the same boat on other exchanges. Maybe PCPro could investigate the case of the phantom upgrades?

JH

By JohnHo1 on 13 Mar 2010

Where can you get an official confirmation of this?

By a_byrne22 on 15 Mar 2010

Not offered to Hornchurch

Agreeing with what JohnHo1 said. My parents live in Hornchurch and their exchange is supposed to be enabled for ADSL2+ now, but have yet to have had their connection upgraded. They even received a letter to say it would be done in March. I guess we still have a couple of weeks yet, but I'm not holding my breath!
I need the extra upload bandwidth as I use the slingbox here in the US!

By jazzy_jeff_81 on 15 Mar 2010

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