Rate your broadband service!

Happy with broadband? Or is it letting you down?

Rate your broadband ISP here >>

BT reveals current front-runners in race to get fibre broadband

BT has revealed that Caxton in Cambridgeshire and Malvern in Worcestershire are currently ahead in the race to bring fibre broadband to their local community.

Back at the beginning of October 2010, BT launched a survey in the form of a competition to allow communities to register their interest in bringing superfast broadband to their local exchange.  These are for choosing exchanges in the “final third”, where BT has said deploying fibre is commercially non-viable and is relying on the interest shown by local businesses and households in the form of this competition.

The competition, branded “the Race to Infinity”, will result in exchanges in the five winning areas getting upgraded to fibre broadband offering download speeds up to 40Mbps.   BT says the exchanges will be upgraded by early 2012 at the latest.  The company also says it will “engage with any community not winning the competition where at least 75 per cent of homes and businesses have voted for super-fast broadband.”

In a statement, Peter McCarthy-Ward, BT’s East of England regional director, commented: “This is fantastic news for Caxton and Cambridgeshire as a whole. Communities across the East of England have really been demonstrating demand for fibre broadband.”

Over 200,000 households and businesses have already registered their vote.  For further information and those interested in bringing fibre broadband to their community where it is not already part of a fibre deployment, visit www.bt.com/racetoinfinity.

The race runs until December 31^st 2010.