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http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/broa...rural-britain/

Fujitsu has joined forces with Cisco and UK ISPs Virgin Media and TalkTalk in a bid to bring superfast broadband to rural areas of the UK.

The majority of the network will use Fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) technology and Fujitsu said it will offer both 1Gbps upload and download speeds with the potential to go to 10Gbps and beyond in the future.

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/4...usinesses.html

A new collaboration between Fujitsu, Virgin Media, TalkTalk and Cisco plans to deliver next-generation broadband to 5 million homes and businesses in rural areas of the UK. Fujitsu will create an open-access wholesale network which will be underpinned by Cisco technology, and will deliver fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) broadband capable of 1Gbps (both upstream and downstream) from day one. Virgin Media and TalkTalk have agreed to use the network to help expand their next-generation broadband offerings.

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/broadban...or-rural-areas

The network will offer fibre to the premise (FTTP), not just to the cabinet, in the "majority" of areas, Fujitsu said. Areas that do get FTTP will get 1Gbit/sec "from day one" - and be able to go up to 10Gbits/sec in the future, Fujitsu said.