Broadband supplier Entanet UK, which delivers services to several vISPs around the country, has announced its active involvement in trials of both the BT fibre optic 100Mbps Fibre-to-the-Premises ( FTTP ) and existing copper line ADSL2+ Annex M (faster 2.5Mbps upload speed) based internet access services.

The Annex M service, which is now being trialled on WBC connections (method BT based ISPs use to deliver up to 24Mbps, among other things), enables the end user to 'trade off' some of their download speed in order to benefit from an increased upload speed (2.5Mbps). The trials began in March and will run into mid May.



Separately Entanet's next generation FTTP trial provides potential download speeds of up to 100Mbps and runs a fibre optic cable directly into buildings (BT intends to cover about 2.5m premises with FTTH / P technology by summer 2012). This latest programme follows on from the successful first stage trials in Kesgrave in 2008, where Entanet recorded one customer achieving 98Mbps.