Will you get full-fibre broadband sooner than expected?

摘要

There's still plenty of debate - not least on our Letters page - about whether people actually need Gigabit broadband. Speeds of 1Gbps (l,000Mbps) appear excessive to many who happily get by on 30-50Mbps, while they must seem like a cruel joke to the 650,000 homes stuck on a single-digit connection. But whatever the public demand, Gigabit broadband is coming - and you might be able to get it sooner than you thought. This is because BT has said it now plans to deliver full-fibre connections - that's all the way to your doorstep, not just ending at the street cabinet - to 25 million homes by 2026, creating 7,000 jobs in the process. That's a big jump from its previous target of 20 million homes by the "mid-to-late 2020s", and will cost £15bn, up from £12bn.