BT boosts bandwidth

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Millions of homes and businesses are set to enjoy a free broadband boost after BT more than doubled the speed for its residential and business customers.

Millions of homes and businesses are set to enjoy a free broadband-boost after BT announced it will more than double the speeds for its residential and business customers.

More than 60,000 consumers are already enjoying the faster speeds through a BT trial.

The upgrade to ADSL 2+ technology will be available to other homes in the summer.

BT Retail broadband customers already enjoy speeds of up to 8Mbit/s.

The new plans will see consumers and businesses in enabled areas receive faster speeds of up to 20Mbit/s as part of their broadband service, at no extra cost.

Based on BT's 21CN platform, the faster speeds will initially be available from 549 telephone exchanges, serving more than ten million - or about 40 per cent - of the UK's homes and businesses. 

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