BT has now equipped over 1,000 of its central office exchanges with ADSL. More than 85% of UK homes and businesses can now get ADSL and this figure is expected to reach 90% by the summer. Since July 2002, BT has relied on a “trigger” scheme whereby a certain number of requests for broadband in a given community causes the company to install the required DSL equipment in the local exchange. More than 700,000 of these service requests have been received since July 2002.
On 23-January-2004, Prime Minister Tony Blair visited his local telephone exchange today to see it being upgraded for high speed broadband internet services. http://www.bt.com
