BTOpenreach, the local telecommunications infrastructure department of British Telecom, which is responsible for providing equal access to ISPs, confirmed that its current FTTC technology test has an access bandwidth of up to 80Mbps, and will begin commercial trials in pilot areas on February 6, 2012.

This is one of the plans announced by British Telecom in May 2011. British Telecom plans to increase the spectrum configuration (from 7MHz to 17MHz) through the access network spectrum plan (ANFP), thereby increasing the FTTC downlink rate from 40Mbps (uplink rate 10-15Mbps) to 80Mbps (uplink rate 20Mbps).

FTTC meansoptical fiberConnect from the local telephone exchange to the cabinet closest to the user. From the cabinet to the user side, the existing copper cable-basedVDSL2 access technology.