Business in Glasgow Halfway has already been enjoying faster speeds through a BT trial.  The service is to be made available to approximately 500,000 homes and businesses from 31-enabled exchanges by late February.

A further 12m homes and businesses will be able to access the services by late summer following the roll out of the technology by Openreach, BT’s local access division. 

Back in July, Corstorphine and Craiglockhart Edinburgh exchanges were listed, as were those of Glasgow Bridgeton and Giffnock. Now the list in Scotland, includes Bothwell, Dalgety Bay, Dunfermline, Glasgow Newton Mearn, Livingston Station, and Penicuik.



The new service allows businesses to run multiple VOIP, high-definition video conferencing and business-grade cloud applications plus download emails, web-pages and FTP files concurrently, to reach new customers and better market themselves. It will also make home working a reality, allowing staff to be connected to the office at all times. 



A dedicated broadband "fast lane" also puts business user traffic first at times of contention to help firms continue to work faster, do more, reduce operational costs and boost productivity.

But even infinity has limitations. BT has now also conceded that its traffic management equipment will restrict the bandwidth available to peer-to-peer protocols on both Infinity packages, as on its existing ADSL services.

BT says the timing of its peer-to-peer throttling varies, but typically appliea between 4pm to midnight in the week and 9am to midnight at weekends. It doesn't disclose how tight restrictions are.

It will also restrict the bandwidth available across all protocols to the heaviest users, which it says are less than 1% of its 5m total subscribers.


Nigel Stagg, (right)  MD BT Business, said: “28% of businesses are already using faster broadband to expand their website capabilities, and another 25% are using it to drive more processes online and employ more bandwidth-hungry technology according to our research last year.

"BT Business Total Broadband Fibre gives businesses capacity and reliability, with the reassurance of a priority service, to enjoy the best possible online experience. We are committed to rolling out higher speeds and additional coverage across the UK during 2010.”