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BT bumps up broadband speeds

BT customers will begin to enjoy the result of its much delayed 21CN network upgrade as it today begins to convert its retail broadband offering nationwide to ADSL2+, which will offer speeds of "up to" 20Mbit/s.

In reality, most homes and businesses are likely to see a small improvement on whatever their current "up to" 8Mbit/s service offers. There will be no extra charges for the faster lines, BT said. Download caps and application throttling will remain in place.

Initially ADSL2+ will serve about 10 million premises; about 40 per cent of BT's network. It's planned that 55 per cent will be covered by March 2010.

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