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BT enhances broadband speeds for customers in UK

UK based telecom giants BT has announced that they are launching new higher speed wholesale broadband services across the UK. This would provide speeds as fast as 8Mbit/s to their customers in the country.

BT has already conducted their tests for this service and is now ready to launch BT ADSL Max and BT ADSL Max Premium broadband services throughout the country by the end of the month.

For this, they have upgraded as many as 5300 exchanges to support higher speed broadband. These exchanges alone serves as much as 99.6 per cent of UK homes and businesses. The plan is to provide high-speed broadband connectivity to help people get more out of their connections to the internet.

The company is hoping that 78 per cent of BT phone lines should support broadband at line rates of 4Mbit/s and above, with 6Mbit/s and above available to more than 42 per cent. For consumers who are located near their exchanges, speeds can be as high as 8Mbit/s.