Glasgow and Edinburgh to get superfast broadband

Two cities in Scotland are to benefit from the £1.5 billion investment by BT to create a super fast broadband network covering around half of the UK’s households.

Work is due to start in Edinburgh that will provide around four thousand households and businesses in the Stockbridge and New Town areas with the service.

In Glasgow a much larger project will connect around thirty thousand businesses and households around the university and the Hillington Park business and light industrial area.

Although the network may be getting super fast broadband, it does not necessarily mean that the customers will be getting the service straight away or that they will be able to get connection speeds of 50 Mbps.

Internet service providers will have to install their own equipment and once again, speeds are governed by the consumers distance from the exchange.