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BT rolls out to 67,500 North East homes.

The next stage of BT’s broadband rollout is set to connect a further 67,500 North East homes to it’s ever expanding network.

Croft, Easington, Lanchester, Willington, Coxhoe, Meadowfield, New Brancepeth, Alnwick, Bedlington, Berwick, Haltwhistle, Ulgham, Amble and Kenton are the next communities included in the latest roll-out plans for BT’s next generation broadband service delivered over copper lines.

The investment will double the speed of broadband which is currently available, and by next Summer 84% of homes and businesses in the region should be connected.

Chris Sayers, BT’s North East regional director, said: “BT’s roll-out of faster broadband across the North East is running at a very rapid pace.

“We have already announced plans to make super-fast fibre-based broadband available to more than 500,000 homes and businesses in the region by the end of next year. Now we are able to confirm a further major investment in faster broadband speeds over copper lines.

These plans come in addition to the £2.5 billion BT roll-out of super-fast fibre-based broadband, which will be available to two thirds of the UK by 2014.

Mr Sayers added: “Nobody is doing more than BT to roll-out faster broadband across the North East. At a time of economic uncertainty these major improvements will provide a big boost for local businesses and offer many additional educational and entertainment opportunities for local households.

“And we want to go further. We want to work with the public sector to find ways of bringing faster broadband to areas, which are geographically and commercially more challenging.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .