Infinity, the BT fibre based broadband launches
BT Retail has announced for the fibre to the cabinet/fibre to the home (FTTC/FTTH) based broadband services, marketed as ‘BT Infinity’. These new products will bring faster download and upload speeds to users and will be available to order from January 25th, if your area has been upgraded for it. Users can check their area availability on the BT website.
Download speeds will be at up to 40Mbps and this will be available at £19.99 a month with a 20GB usage limit. A £50 connection fee applies. The unlimited usage variant will cost £24.99 a month, but does save you the £50 connection fee. It also increases the upload speed from 2Mbps to 10Mbps.
Both products do come with a fair usage policy. Details of this will be released on the 25th of January, but we home that as the products are marketed with usages such as “simultaneous use of services such as HD catch-up on TV” this does reflect the higher usage that may occur.
Gavin Patterson, CEO of BT Retail said: “The internet is essential to our customers’ lives and they are demanding more and more as richer and even more compelling services become available. BT Infinity gives customers the capacity and reliability they need in an instant and at a great value price they can afford. We want to give our customers the best possible online experience and are committed to rolling out super-fast speeds across the UK.”
The product is competitively priced when compared to Virgin who offers 50meg broadband over their cable network for £38, or £28 if you also have a phone line with them. It is worth noting that with Virgin, your line will always connect at 50meg but you may not get this speed due to congestion in the Virgin network. With BT’s 40meg Infinity service, your line may not connect at this 40meg speed due to distance from the roadside cabinet, and you may also suffer congestion within the BT’s network.