Call to net super-fast broadband

Published on Tuesday 15 July 2008 10:29

BT today urged the Scottish government and other public sector bodies to help bring super-fast broadband to Scotland.

A 1.5 billion pound BT plan to roll out fibre-based broadband will result in a range of speeds up to 100Mb/s becoming available for up to 10 million UK homes by 2012. And the firm says it will be those areas showing the greatest eagerness to use the new services which will benefit first. BT said today it would focus its investment in places where there was a strong public sector interest in partnering with BT and using the new services.

Much of the UK is already set to receive advanced new copper-based broadband services of up to 24Mb/s – up to three times the headline speeds currently available for most homes and businesses.

Brendan Dick, director of BT Scotland, said: "Scotland is already a tremendous broadband success story and this is a great opportunity for the nation to be on the front page of the next chapter. BT is keen to invest further in Scotland so today I am urging the Scottish public sector to work with us to ensure the funds are directed to our country."