SEVERAL communities across the West Midlands are set to benefit from new super-fast broadband in the latest phase of an expansion programme by BT.
The programme, part of a wider £2.5bn initiative, is targeting 152,000 homes and businesses across the region
The new areas to benefit are Bilston, Fordhouses, Horseley Fields, Penn, Brierley Hill, Lye and Stourbridge in the Black Country.
Also included are homes and businesses served by Midland and Smallbrook exchanges in the centre of Birmingham, as well as Hereford, Newcastle, Wellington, Willenhall and Canley.
The company say it will take the number of West Midlands homes and businesses being passed by the new super-fast network to more than one million, with these latest upgrades due to be completed during next year.
BT said due to topography and the economics of deployment, it would be likely a “small minority of premises” would not initially be connected up to the new network.
The network features a mix of fibre to the cabinet and fibre to the premises technologies.
Services to street cabinets currently offer download speeds of up to 40Mbps but BT said it would roughly double these speeds next year.
Services directly to homes and businesses are due to rise from 100Mbps to 300Mbps in the spring.
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