Bournemouth and Leeds get super-fast broadband

Two cities in the UK can look forward to next-gen broadband soon.

Bournemouth citizens can rub their hands together with the most glee, however, as a 1Gbps next-gen network is ready to launch courtesy of FibreCity.

Yes, speeds of 1000Mbps will be facilitated by the fibre-to-the-home scheme, which will be brought to around 1000 households.

That won’t be a constant speed, mind you, as customers will only get the full 1Gbps in bursts.

Packages will actually be offered at between 25 and 100Mbps, with 1Gbps available from one ISP (Velocity1) in short bursts of an hour, allowing for the most bandwidth intensive activities – such as downloading HD movies – to be easily accomplished.

Leeds is also set to receive a 100Mbps fibre network, provided by aql, beginning with businesses in “The Calls” area and expanding further throughout the city as the year progresses.