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Fibre first for residents
Friday October 03rd 2008. Posted: 13:10
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Some of Ebbsfleet's new residents have already ordered fibre-access services
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The first residents to benefit from access to BT’s fibre-based super-fast broadband service in the UK have moved into their new homes.
Over the past fortnight, families and single people have been settling into fibre-enabled houses and flats they have bought in Springhead Park, the first residential development on a 1,000-acre new-build project at Ebbsfleet Valley in Kent. Openreach is providing fibre optic cable instead of traditional copper to connect the properties on the 1,000-acre community on the greenfield site, being developed by Land Securities. It is the company’s first use of fibre rather than copper to residential customers on a new-build site and the project forms part of BT’s super-fast broadband programme. Some residents have already ordered a range of fibre-based access services from BT Retail, which will enable them to download at speeds of up to 100Mb/s - the fastest headline speed available to residential customers in the UK. Jon Beardmore, BT Retail general manager for strategic products, said: “We have successfully delivered voice, 100Mb/s broadband and BT Vision over fibre to customers in time for the first occupancy. “This was a very complex project in which almost everything was new, but we succeeded with tremendous effort and co-operation from BT Retail, BT Wholesale, Openreach, the BT Group chief technology office and BT Design.” Phil Laws, head of the Openreach fibre-to-the-premises programme, said: “We announced that we would be installing fibre optics to properties at Ebbsfleet with speeds up to 100Mbit/s and I’m delighted to say that we delivered on time.”
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