BT names next towns to get super-fast broadband

BT has announced the next 69 locations set to receive its super-fast broadband in the UK.

The rollout, run by BT’s Openreach division, will give 1.5 million homes access to high speed fibre internet by early summer 2010 although BT have promised one million of those will have access by March.

Steve Robertson, chief executive of Openreach, said: “Fibre is the future and so we’re speeding up the pace of our plans. We had aimed to get fibre to half a million homes by next March but we’re now being far more ambitious.”

BT plans to make the super-fast broadband available to 40 per cent of the UK by 2012, the same time that Lord Carter wants everyone in the UK to have access to a minimum of 2Mbps according to the Digital Britain report.

Pilot schemes for the super-fast broadband began on Monday in Muswell Hill and Whitchurch, South Wales, providing speeds of up to 40Mbps for 30,000 homes.

Here is a list of the 69 exchange locations benefiting from this rollout:

BERKHAMSTED East of England

BILLERICAY East of England

BRENTWOOD East of England

ELSTREE East of England

HAINAULT East of England

HODDESDON East of England

LEA VALLEY East of England

LOUGHTON East of England

STANFORD-LE-HOPE East of England

WALTHAM CROSS East of England

WOODFORD East of England

GLOSSOP East Midlands

HINCKLEY East Midlands

BARKING London

BARNET London

ELTHAM London

GREENWICH London

HORNCHURCH London

INGREBOURNE London

NEW SOUTHGATE London

PONDERS END London

SIDCUP London

SLADE GREEN London

STAMFORD HILL London

CHESTER-LE-STREET North East

DURHAM North East

EAST HERRINGTON North East

HETTON-LE-HOLE North East

ALTRINCHAM North West

ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE North West

CHEETHAM North West

CHORLTON North West

DENTON North West

HYDE North West

MANCHESTER EAST North West

MOSS SIDE North West

PRESTWICH North West

STALYBRIDGE North West

SWINTON, GREATER MANCHESTER North West

URMSTON North West

WALKDEN North West

WILMSLOW North West

LISBURN Northern Ireland

EDINBURGH CORSTORPHINE Scotland

EDINBURGH CRAIGLOCKHART Scotland

GLASGOW BRIDGETON Scotland

GLASGOW GIFFNOCK Scotland

BASINGSTOKE South East

DARTFORD South East

BRISTOL NORTH South West

BRISTOL WEST South West

DOWNEND South West

BARRY Wales

CAERPHILLY Wales

PENARTH Wales

BIRMINGHAM, NORTHERN West Midlands

FALLINGS PARK West Midlands

GREAT BARR West Midlands

LEAMORE West Midlands

NUNEATON West Midlands

TETTENHALL West Midlands

WEDNESBURY West Midlands

WALSALL West Midlands

ARMLEY Yorkshire

CASTLEFORD Yorkshire

HEADINGLEY Yorkshire

LOW MOOR Yorkshire

PONTEFRACT Yorkshire

SHIPLEY Yorkshire

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