BT to guarantee 15Mbits/sec with fibre
BT will guarantee connection speeds of at least 15Mbits/sec on its forthcoming fibre network.
The company is accelerating its nationwide fibre rollout, and now plans to connect a million premises by next March, and 1.5 million by next summer.
The good news for small business customers is that BT plans to guarantee the speed of the connection on fibre lines. "There will be an SLA [service level agreement] associated with the product," said David Campbell, managing director of next-generation access at BT Openreach. "We will accept a fault and fix it if the line drops below 15 meg."
BT's fibre-to-the-cabinet (FTTC) lines will offer download speeds of up to 40Mbits/sec, but BT claims the upload speeds will be more impressive.
