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March
2020
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BT set to launch Gigabit home broadband across the UK

  • BT set to become the UK’s fastest home broadband provider in more places than any other with the launch of a new gigabit service later this month

  • BT’s service will be available initially in hundreds of cities, towns and villages across the UK – more than two million households in total

  • BT’s new gigabit service will offer the UK’s most reliable home broadband service with best in class customer experience - designed to meet the needs of the busiest connected homes

  • Full pricing and proposition detail to be revealed in the coming weeks and customers can register their interest at: www.bt.com/full-fibre-interest

 

BT today announced it is set to launch a new gigabit home broadband service to consumers across the UK from later this month. The service will form part of a new range of next generation Full Fibre plans – designed to offer consumers average speeds up to 25 times faster than Superfast fibre.

BT’s new gigabit home broadband service will offer customers a best-in-class broadband experience, ensuring it is perfect for busy connected homes where multiple online devices stream, browse, monitor and game at once and at the busiest times. It will also provide a future proof connection to enable homes to make the most of new high-bandwidth products and services such as 8K video, online gaming and the increasingly connected smart home. BT’s service will also offer ultrafast upload speeds – perfect for live online gaming, smart security camera monitoring, home working and video calling.

BT’s new gigabit service will be available in hundreds of cities, towns and villages across the UK, including rolling out across Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Liverpool, Leeds, London and Manchester from later this month, totalling more than two million households, and giving BT the biggest Full Fibre network reach of any provider in the UK. Beyond this, BT has an ambition to reach around half of homes in the UK by the end of 2025.

BT Full Fibre will be a perfect accompaniment to BT’s new range of flexible TV packages designed to offer customers the freedom to choose the TV shows, films and sport they want, when they want - with the flexibility to change their package every month.

Further information on BT’s Full Fibre home broadband service, including pricing and availability for new and existing customers will be made in the coming weeks. Customers wanting to be the first to hear more can register their interest at: www.bt.com/full-fibre-interest

About BT

BT’s purpose is to use the power of communications to make a better world. It is one of the world’s leading providers of communications services and solutions, serving customers in 180 countries. Its principal activities include the provision of networked IT services globally; local, national and international telecommunications services to its customers for use at home, at work and on the move; broadband, TV and internet products and services; and converged fixed-mobile products and services. BT consists of four customer-facing units: Consumer, Enterprise, Global and Openreach.

For the year ended 31 March 2019, BT Group’s reported revenue was £23,428m with reported profit before taxation of £2,666m.

British Telecommunications plc (BT) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of BT Group plc and encompasses virtually all businesses and assets of the BT Group. BT Group plc is listed on the London stock exchange.

For more information, visit www.btplc.com