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BT has announced that hundreds of homes and businesses in Edinburgh’s Morningside area now have access to high-speed fibre broadband – and more than 6,500 will be able to connect as engineers complete the upgrade in the coming weeks. The arrival of fibre broadband in


Morningside is another step forward for South Edinburgh’s digital future. The internet is an integral part of daily life for many of my constituents, at home and at work, and it’s great that local people now have the option to connect to this fast and resilient new technology. Fibre broadband can also bring new opportunities and a competitive edge to our businesses, so it’s good news on all fronts. Openreach, BT’s local network


business, is primarily deploying fibre-to- the-cabinet (FTTC) technology, where the fibre runs from the exchange to a local roadside cabinet. FTTC offers download speeds of up to 80Mbps and upload speeds of up to 20Mbps and could deliver even faster speeds in the future.


From Spring 2013 Openreach


aims to start to make fibre-to-the- premises (FTTP) technology, where the fibre runs all the way to the home or business, commercially available on demand in areas where fibre broadband has been deployed. FTTP-on-demand will offer the top current download speed of 330Mbps. According to the regulator Ofcom, the current average UK residential broadband download speed is 12Mbps. At home, fibre broadband


enables a family to simultaneously download a movie, watch a TV replay service, surf the internet and play games online, all at the same time. A whole album can be downloaded in less than 30 seconds and a feature length HD movie in less than 10 minutes, whilst high-resolution photos can be uploaded to Facebook in seconds.


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