Local homes and businesses to benefit from access to ultra-fast broadband

Homes and businesses in Deddington, Oxfordshire are set to benefit from the UK’s fastest available broadband speeds after BT announced the village will be the first pilot location for its fibre-only exchange programme.

This programme will explore the opportunities arising from a future fibre-only world in which services over copper are replaced entirely with next generation voice and broadband services running over fibre optic cables.

It is a long term programme given that copper based services are expected to be available for many years yet.

Sean Williams, Group Strategy Director of BT said: “Fresh advances in technology are pushing the boundaries for new services on an almost daily basis. This is an important pilot which will help the industry better understand the opportunities arising from a fibre-only world in which traditional copper will be replaced by the super-fast capabilities of fibre-optic cable.”