Bill Murphy, managing director of next generation access for BT, explained to the Guardian Tech Weekly podcast that the telecommunications firm has already started to invest £2.5 billion of money to ensure high-speed broadband access is available to rural and hard-to-reach communities around the UK.
The capital programme, Mr Murphy said, is the largest BT has ever undertaken to deliver superfast broadband to about two-thirds of the country, wireless communication device users may be interested to know.
"There is a need for speed," he said. "There is no question [that] heavy users of the internet want a better experience and want higher speeds and you are well served here in the UK."
Mr Murphy added: "Twenty million people use broadband today to access the internet and still it is growing [by] about 25,000 a week."
Posted by Simon Jones
