There's very good news for millions of UK broadband users with Openreach announcing a major milestone in its rollout of faster speeds. The BT-owned firm, which installs fibre infrastructure across the UK, has just revealed it's now connected 10 million properties to blisteringly quick Fibre to the Premises (FTTP). This technology brings the latest generation of cables right through the walls of homes meaning there's no longer a need to rely on slow and ageing copper lines.
The boost means firms such as Sky, BT and TalkTalk - which all use Openreach services - can now offer more customers much-improved connectivity.
In fact, FTTP is fully capable of whizzing the web into homes at speeds in excess of 1Gbps - that's quick enough to blast a full HD movie to a TV in under 40 seconds. It's a stark contrast to copper lines which can only muster around 70Mbps - that's over 10 times slower. Just like a US highway, fibre is also able to cope with more traffic running through it which allows speeds to stay fast even during busy times of the day.
