Technology
What is Super>Fast Broadband? |
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How broadband is delivered via a phone line and how to make it faster.... Equipment in the telephone exchange delivers broadband to your house or business over copper telephone wires. The distance your house or business is from the exchange determines how fast your broadband will be.
To make broadband faster, a new technology called Fibre to the Cabinet (FTTC) is being rolled out across some areas of the country.
This new technology involves moving the equipment that is currently in the exchange closer to your home or business by placing it in a roadside cabinet.
The new cabinet is linked to the exchange via fibre optic cable and to your house over the existing copper wires. By placing the equipment at the roadside the distance the signal must travel over copper wires is reduced and this increases the speed you experience at your office or in your home. However, this new technology is expensive to deploy because each box needs its own electricity and must be connected by a new fibre optic cable to the exchange. It takes several boxes to cover even a small village.
If you want faster broadband and are lucky enough to be in an area which is getting the new Super>Fast FTTC service you will need to ask your existing ISP (Intenet Service Provider) if they can upgrade you to the new service, if they don't offer the new service you will need to change to a provider that does.
If you want faster broadband but are not in an area that has the new service you can register your interest with us, the more evidence we have that customers want the new service the sooner we will be able to encourage ISPs to invest in the area.
Changing providers is a simple process in most cases but you will need to check your contract terms and conditions. We have provided a list below of all the ISPs that are currently (July 2010) offering an FTTC (Super>Fast) broadband service.
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