BT’s broadband offerings are set to get infinity times better from next Monday onwards. From the 25th of January, customers will be able to sign up for download speeds of up to 40Mbps from £19.99 per month.
BT Infinity Option 1 gives you top speeds of 40Mbps and 2Mbps downstream and upstream, 20GB of usage a month and costs £19.99 with a one-off £50 activation fee.
The higher-grade BT Infinity Option 2 offers the same top download speed of 40Mbps but offers a faster upload speed of 10Mbps and comes with unlimited downloads.
Option 2 costs £24.99 a month but there aren’t any additional charges.
Whilst BT Infinity doesn’t offer speeds as fast as Virgin Media’s 50Mbps XXL service, the Option 2 package provides a greater upload speed, which BT claim is over 6 times faster than that offered by XXL.
It’s not made clear or not if ‘unlimited’ here means unlimited in the sense of Virgin Media’s XXL service (i.e. no restrictions) and if any traffic management will be put in place. The BT Infinity page on the Products & Services section of BT’s website says:
“Full product Terms & Conditions, including details of fair usage policy and maximum speeds, available from 25th January.”
The services will only be available to those living in ‘enabled areas’ - presumably this will include the Muswell Hill, Whitchurch and Halfway areas of London, Cardiff and Glasgow where trials of the next-gen tech have taken place. The BT Infinity page has a connection checker tool which will allow you to see whether or not you’ll be able to sign up for Infinity on Monday.
BT has stated that by the end of 2010, 4 million UK homes and businesses will be able to access BT Infinity, with the business version of the service going under the name BT Business Total Broadband Fibre.
Gavin Patterson, chief executive officer, BT Retail, said: “The internet is essential to our customers’ lives and they are demanding more and more as richer and even more compelling services become available. BT Infinity gives customers the capacity and reliability they need in an instant and at a great value price they can afford. We want to give our customers the best possible online experience and are committed to rolling out super-fast speeds across the UK.”
Posted by Tom on January 21st 2010 in BT Broadband, Next Gen Broadband, Virgin Media
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mark said on 19 Feb 2010 at 3:46 pm #
what aload of crap, what happend to the 21cn my exchange has been setup with it for months and i still only get 3mbps on a upto 20mbps conection its always the same with b.t cant deliver what they advertise