Shropshire towns to receive faster broadband services
Shrewsbury, Newport, Dawley and Stirchley are to get superfast broadband after being included in a new list of locations, which will see super fast broadband delivered to the local area.
The towns have today been included on a list by BT which has earmarked the towns for its ongoing rollout of faster broadband also knows as ‘Infinity’.
The superfast internet connection delivers download speeds of up to 40Mb and upload speeds of up to 10Mb.
BT Openreach will carry out the upgrades, over the next 20 months during which time engineers will lay fibre from the exchange buildings to a new generation of street-side cabinets. The cabinets will connect to homes and businesses via existing copper and aluminum wiring.
Ten exchange areas that recently won the "Race to Infinity" broadband upgrade competition including Baschurch near Shrewsbury were also included in BT's latest fibre rollout list.
Oswestry will also benefit from the superfast broadband after it was included on a list of Market Towns set for upgrade before 2012.
John Dovey, BT’s regional director for the West Midlands, said: “Our research in towns that already have super-fast fibre broadband shows that 75 per cent of customers who have made the switch have seen their speeds increase by at least three times, and many have seen much bigger increases.
“Customers are telling us that it has transformed their experience of the internet. For example, uploading your own 20-second video clip to YouTube takes 12 minutes on first generation broadband up to 8Mbps, and two minutes 30 seconds on super-fast BT Infinity, whilst downloading a 12-track album from iTunes takes three minutes compared to a super-fast time of just 36 seconds!
