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BT has announced a ground-breaking fibre to the home (FTTH) deal with UK real
estate investment trust Land Securities and British Sky Broadcasting.
The use of FTTH technology at Ebbsfleet Valley – the largest private
developer-led community scheme to be undertaken in the UK – will be a first of
its kind for the UK residential market on a mass scale.
Ebbsfleet Valley, near Bluewater shopping centre and adjacent to the new
Ebbsfleet International station, covers 1,000 acres with 9,500 new homes and up
to nine million square feet of commercial offices, retail, leisure and community
facilities.
BT will provide next-generation access network and end user connectivity through
FTTH technology, using the latest optical fibre networks.
The provision of optical fibre networks will also include benefits such as
on-demand (high definition) entertainment services and voice over internet
protocol (VoIP) phone services enabled in every home.
The network, which will be developed by Openreach, will provide
multiple fibre deployment to each home, including satellite and broadcast media
services. This means that each home and establishment in Ebbsfleet Valley will
be pre-enabled to receive Freeview and satellite-based entertainment services
and DAB radio via the network, avoiding reception issues and the need for
individual satellite dish installations.
"This is a ground-breaking initiative to bring the enormous
potential of high-speed information and communications services to
Ebbsfleet Valley."
"BT is pleased to be part of such an exciting and innovative
development and is committed to making this project a huge success
as a partner, deploying our skills as the provider of world-leading
technological expertise and knowledge and also in working towards
other development opportunities – elsewhere in the Thames Gateway
and in other major sites across the UK." |
| Andrew Campling, BT’s general manager for London and the
South East |
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