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Super-quick broadband arrives in Wales
Friday 4th June 2010, by Daniel King
BT's ultra-quick broadband has landed on Welsh turf this week, offering customers download speeds of up to 40Mb/s.
The technology has now found its way into the homes of 17,000 Caerphilly residents and 13,000 Barry inhabitants, with more roll-outs expected over the coming weeks.
Ann Beynon, BT director for Wales, has described the upgrade as a positive step, which will offer support to the local economy.
She said: "This is an exciting development for the Wales broadband story. Households and businesses in Caerphilly switching to super-fast broadband will soon be experiencing the internet as they have never experienced it before."
Ms Beynon added that more customers will get the benefit of fibre-based broadband as the roll-out of the technology improves.
Wayne David, MP for Caerphilly, also commented on the arrival of high-speed internet, suggesting that it is an important advancement for the town and is the result of significant investment.
The service offers an upload capability of 10Mb/s and there is potential for the current download speed to increase to 60Mb/s.
All sounds pretty good to me, I might consider a move to Wales (or maybe just a holiday) and test this new system out for myself!
However, BT has also recognised the extra expense involved in providing super-fast internet to the final third of the UK.
It has been suggested that any additional support will come from public sector funding.
In order to finance the roll-out across the UK, the coalition government has proposed using part of the BBC License fee.
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