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Internet provider BE Broadband has this morning informed their customers that they’re “not making very good progress on fibre<\/em>” and will once again have to delay<\/strong> their plans to launch a full superfast broadband (FTTC<\/a>) service until 2013<\/strong>. The move is also likely to affect parent ISP O2<\/a> UK (Telefonica).
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\nBE revealed during September 2011 that it was taking them “longer than we originally thought<\/em>” to launch their superfast services, which meant that their original plans to launch the new packages before the end of 2011 had to be delayed to 2012.<\/p>\n

Since then hopes had been raised after BE began trials of its FTTC<\/a> service at the Barking<\/strong> (Greater London) telephone exchange and announced a major overhaul of its core network<\/strong> during 2012, which would improve capacity and provide better support for a number of future products.<\/p>\n

BE Statement<\/strong><\/p>\n

We’re afraid we’re not making very good progress on fibre. There are lots of reasons for this, but the bottom line is we’re unlikely to launch a service across the BE network in 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n

Many of you told us you were prepared to wait for a fibre service from BE, so we’re sorry to bring you this news and for keeping you waiting.<\/em><\/p>\n

We’re still looking into launching a service on a limited basis later this year, combining our unshaped, unlimited network with the higher speeds of fibre-to-the-cabinet. It’s just taking much longer than we’d like<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Customers are likely to be left feeling both extremely frustrated and confused by the latest news, which oddly states that the service won’t and then will launch, albeit on a “limited basis<\/em>“, this year. BE\u2019s network is also shared by O2<\/a> and as a result any delay affecting one usually tends to hold up the other. A double whammy of frustration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Internet provider BE Broadband has this morning informed their customers that they’re “not making very good progress on fibre” and will once again have to delay their plans to launch a full superfast broadband (FTTC) service until 2013. 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