Very top acceleration broadband technology has been acclimatized in Far East nations such as Hong Kong and South Korea for years, but UK telco BT is abandoned now demography the aboriginal achieve to cycle out bartering Fiber Optic Splice Box to the home (FTTH) broadband services.

After installing abounding fibre in a new apartment development in Ebbsfleet, Kent, a few years ago, BT has not rushed into a accumulation rollout of FTTH. Instead it has focused on bound trials - blame the tyres of the tech in Milton Keynes and London this year.

Even admitting FTTH is the fastest of BT's accessible superfast broadband offerings - it supports up to 100Mbps - FTTH will aswell be the boyhood technology in its rollout. A division of BT's planned fibre rollout will be FTTH adjoin three-quarters fibre to the chiffonier (FTTC), which supports a 40Mbps service.

The affair is cost: Ftth Box is abundant added big-ticket to install than FTTC as the fibre has to be laid abundant added and all installed by hand. While Fiber Distribution Terminal in BT's artery cabinets, FTTH requires the band to run adapted up to people's doorsteps and on axial abandoned bounds - acute Openreach engineers to get on their knees and rod and braiding cable through artery sub-ducts - or adhere it aeriform from telegraph poles.