Babcock International, an UK engineering support services organisation that is currently building a new wireless broadband network inside Norwich, has announced that it is planning to expand its broadband coverage into rural areas around the city.


Norfolk councillors have in the recent past raised a storm due to the region frequently being missed out of BT's fibre optic based broadband services deployment. To be fair it's early days yet and the operator cannot be expected to reach everybody within a short period of time. The first generation of ADSL broadband took several years to rollout and FTTC will be no different.

Mr Lewis agreed that Norfolk suffered a "serious lack" of broadband and it wants to help solve that, albeit by primarily targeting business customers. The network itself will be open access, allowing any ISP to also offer services to home users. Exact details on its extended rollout have yet to be revealed.