BT earmarks super-speedy 300Mbit/s broadband for 50 exchanges

BT is planning to offer a 300Mbit/s Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband service to 50 exchanges by the end of this year.

The national telco has not said which exchange areas will get the FTTP service, which will cost subscribers £50 a month.

The telecoms giant claimed it would be punting the fastest download speeds of all major ISPs. The Infinity product will push upstream speeds of 20Mbps, BT said.

Far fewer BT exchanges are being equipped with FTTP than with Fibre-to-the-Cabinet (FTTC) tech.

BT has invested £2.5bn to deploy FTTP and FTTC to about 65 per cent of properties in the UK. But many more will get fibre via shared cabinets rather than blown directly into their homes or businesses.