Fibre optic broadband reaches half of UK
Superfast roll-out has so far brought fibre optic broadband to 15 million homes, giving half of Britain access to speeds of up to 80Mb.
Fibre optic broadband, yes, there’s some fibre in it, but:
BT Infinity is a broadband service in the United Kingdom provided by BT Retail, the consumer sales arm of the BT Group. The underlying network is fibre-to-the-cabinet (FTTC), which uses optical fibre for all except the final few hundred metres to the consumer, and delivers claimed download speeds of “up to 76 Mbit/s” and upload speeds of “up to 19 Mbit/s” depending on package selected.[1] The fibre terminates in a new roadside cabinet containing a DSLAM, from where the final connection to the customer uses VDSL2 technology.
Hat tip: Steve Biddle