{"id":1688,"date":"2012-09-18T08:12:59","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T07:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=1688"},"modified":"2012-09-18T10:31:10","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T09:31:10","slug":"bt-reveals-gbp8m-fibre-optic-broadband-link-to-orkney-and-shetland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/09\/bt-reveals-gbp8m-fibre-optic-broadband-link-to-orkney-and-shetland.html","title":{"rendered":"UPD BT Reveal New GBP8m Fibre Optic Broadband Link to Orkney and Shetland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a> has announced a new <strong>\u00a38 million<\/strong> project to replace its slow microwave wireless connection to the remote islands of <strong>Orkney<\/strong> and <strong>Shetland<\/strong> with a\u00a0fibre optic cable link, which is expected to connect via the undersea <strong>SHEFA-2<\/strong> cable that links the <strong>Faroe Islands <\/strong>with mainland Scotland (UK). But don\u2019t they have this already?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The project is expected to bring a range of new services to Lerwick, Kirkwall, Dingwall, Tain, Thurso, Alness and Invergordon. This will include an ADSL2+ (up to 20Mbps) based broadband upgrade for home users (the current service uses 8Mbps <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/adsl\">ADSL<\/a>) and a new raft of superfast <strong>Ethernet<\/strong> products for businesses; sadly there&#8217;s no mention of a superfast <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttc\">FTTC<\/a> solution.<\/p>\n<p>The new link, which will use 400km of\u00a0undersea fibre optic cable (a further 600km is\u00a0used over land), is expected to <strong>go live during early 2013<\/strong> and will be one of the longest fibre systems in the UK.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Brendan Dick, Director of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a> Scotland, said (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shetlandtimes.co.uk\/2012\/09\/17\/under-fire-bt-set-to-improve-isles-broadband-service\" target=\"_blank\">Shetland Times<\/a>):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>By investing \u00a38 million in this fibre spine for Orkney, Shetland and the north of Scotland, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a> is laying the building blocks for any future deployment of fibre broadband<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Faster broadband is touching the lives of everyone from small businesses to internet shoppers, and transforming the way we do things for the better. BT is committed to making faster technologies available to as many homes and businesses as possible<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Interestingly not one of the reports seems to have mentioned that Shetland Telecom recently connected up a new <strong>fibre optic<\/strong> service to the undersea <strong>SHEFA-2<\/strong> cable during April 2012 and has already begun connecting homes on the Shetland Islands via two community broadband schemes (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/05\/two-puffins-are-first-to-test-shetland-telecoms-fibre-optic-broadband-service.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>). BT appeared to show little interest in the region until after this project had made some headway.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Marvin Smith, Shetland Telecom\u2019s Project Manager, separately told ISPreview.co.uk:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>BT are more than welcome to use our infrastructure. The network is open access and everybody and anybody is welcome to use it. At the same time though, we are not sitting about waiting for the large service providers. If we have to go further and do more we will<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ultimately both BT and Shetland Telecom&#8217;s new network should help to support the council\u2019s <strong>Digital Shetland<\/strong> strategy, which aims to ensure that 80% of Shetland\u2019s communities are connected to a fibre optic backbone by March 2016. The existing microwave radio link will meanwhile be retained as a back-up.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE 10:24am<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Since writing this article we&#8217;ve been seeking some extra clarification. BT is understood to have leased fibres in Shefa2 from Shetland to UK in 2007 and this capacity is what they now plan to light above. 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