Telecoms provider BT is accelerating its twine broadband rollout. It right away skeleton to offer "super-fast" internet speeds to two-thirds of UK premises by the finish of 2014.
The aim is a year forward of its initial plan.
The definite says its principal product will offer limit download speeds about 10 times faster than at present, at 70-100Mbps on average.
That will help it vie against Virgin Media's 100Mbps offer.
BT says it is contracting an extra 520 engineers and bringing forward 300m of investment to accomplish the goal.
The company says 6 million premises already have access to its twine broadband technology, about 25% of the total.
It aims to enlarge that to about 10 million properties, or about 40% of those in the UK, by the finish of next year.
"Our rollout of twine broadband is a of the fastest in the world and so it is great to be forward of what was an already severe schedule," mentioned BT's arch senior manager Ian Livingston.
A new inform referred to the UK ranked 25th in the world in conditions of median broadband connection speeds.
Akamai's State of the Internet Report mentioned the median UK connection speed was 5Mbps compared to the Netherlands' 8.5Mbps and South Korea's 13.8Mbps.
"For a long time people think the UK was on a low-fibre diet and it was receiving us a long time compared to everybody else," mentioned Matthew Howett, senior researcher at the telecoms consultants Ovum.
"These investments are costly and dangerous - primarily when you are unaware if people even wish the faster product. But BT has seen urge for its tip speeds and that's enlivening them to hurl out the twine more quickly."
Speeds of up to 100Mbps will enable households to river multi-part high clarification radio programmes, song and games at the same time.
Experts say many homes will not need such swift speeds is to foreseeable future, however it will help future-proof the network against serve developments.
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