Broadband speeds set to rise to 20Mbit/s.
Days after it was revealed that millions of UK homes can only get broadband speeds of less than 2Mbit/s, BT has finally announced it will roll out ADSL2+ technology to all its consumer and business customers, free of charge.
ADSL2+ technology was first used by an ISP to offer London customers broadband speeds of 24Mbit/s nearly four years ago. This triggered a rush of rival ISPs to install their own DSLAMS into BT's exchanges in order to offer users an unbundled service with much better line speeds that could be achieved via BT's own wholesale service, which currently maxes out at 8Mbit/s (although of course, many UK homes and businesses get nowhere near this figure).
