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BT has revealed it is developing a new longer-range product, which it has claimed, will reduce the number of areas that cannot currently receive the service.



The ‘extended reach’ ASDL line is being trialed by just ten people at present but a larger test is expected to commence late next month.

BT hopes that by increasing the distance over which broadband will work, areas which are unable to access the service, because they live too far away from their nearest exchange, will be able to get connected.

Up to six per cent of premises in broadband-enabled areas suffer from this problem but, according to BT, their new extended reach service will halve the number of places where the length of telephone line means they cannot get receive a faster internet connection.

And BT has hit out at claims that, because of the length of cable involved, the new product would suffer from bandwidth problems and said it would be just as fast as existing broadband services.

Britain currently lags behind many other European countries in the adoption of high speed internet services, and BT has received much of the blame for this – the Federation of Small Businesses has recently attacked the company for refusing to upgrade rural exchanges unless a certain number of customers signed up in advance.

And earlier in the year a report by the Institute of Directors revealed that only ten per cent of small firms were happy with their current bandwidth provision and 78 per cent of business bosses that a lack of broadband infrastructure was holding back the service.

However its new service would be welcome news for many small business, particularly those in rural areas, who have long complained about the problems of connecting to broadband.


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