Speedier broadband for 5,200 more Shropshire users
Superfast broadband is speeding its way towards Wem and Cleobury Mortimer, BT has announced.
Superfast broadband is speeding its way towards Wem and Cleobury Mortimer, BT has announced.
The two county towns are among the latest to benefit from the roll-out of the telecoms network’s next generation broadband service. It will extend the service to a further 5,200 homes and business in Shropshire.
John Dovey, BT’s West Midlands regional director, said: “The rapid roll-out of faster broadband offers a great opportunity for Cleobury Mortimer and Wem and the West Midlands as a whole.
“It is an important part of BT’s plans to help ensure that the county is able to take full advantage of the communications revolution.
“Around 84 per cent of West Midlands businesses and households now have access to this technology and within about a year this will have increased to nearly nine out of 10 premises in this region.”
He added: “The technology is having a major impact on our everyday lives and changing for the better the way we live, helping businesses work more efficiently and flexibly and to find new markets.
“And communities are better able to make use of the huge range of online educational and entertainment opportunities available.”
The upgraded service, delivered through copper lines, is due to be available by the spring of next year.
The investment should make download speeds of up to 20 megabits per second available in the towns – more than double the speed previously available from BT.
Faster broadband is already available to more than 1.76 million homes and businesses across the West Midlands, including more than 126,000 in Shropshire, with Baschurch, Bayston Hill, Broseley and Hollins-wood the most recent to go live.
By next spring about 88 per cent of homes and businesses in the region will be served by an exchange which has been upgraded to deliver these higher speeds.
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Comments for: "Speedier broadband for 5,200 more Shropshire users"
Steve Woods
Given that parts of Japan and South Korea now have connectivity of up to 1Gb/s, how much of a "communications revolution" is BT's measly 20 Mb/s?
Yeah but though but
This is typical of this country all over. It's not just BT is it? I mean, for them to think that we believe that they are doing us all a favour, when all they are doing is saying, 'You'll never get what South Korea has, so go suck eggs!'
It's such a shame that ALL the ISP's are as bad as each other, as they all rely on BT ugrading the ancient unreliable network. Smoke signals are faster.
Tony Broom
What wonderful news.
Hot on the heels of the, strangely, far less advertised fact that apparently Gobowen and Whittington will not get the high speed connection that the Oswestry exchange is getting(late, as usual) I really am fed up when filtered news is released.
All we’ve had for a couple of years is HS BB coming to Oswestry in Mar 2012.
No mention of, some bits of the exchange.
No mention of phasing, or time scale.
No mention of delays in implementing this farce.
Is not 83000 out of 1.13 million a very low fraction?
Strange that Baschurch is financially viable, while two, much larger, villages are not.
This convinces me that BT will finally lose the last third of my telephony business.
Notfttc
This is only 21CN connection and not the newer Fibre products.
We already have TalkTalk and Sky in Wem offering 24megabits per seconds for a few years so in essence, they are all not classed as superfast.