Broadband upgrade update

Cable & Wireless engineers are currently carrying out final testing ahead of the upgrade to the island’s broadband network to enable speeds of up to 8 Megabits per second (MB).

Work on the £2.5 million project, which will double most household broadband speeds from 1MB – 2MB involves transferring the existing connections to new equipment that has been installed at all of the Bailiwick's eight exchanges. Businesses and heavy users can get an upgrade to either a 4MB or 8MB service. The focus of engineers is in ensuring that the transition is smooth, with no disruption to existing broadband services.

The higher connection speeds that will be available following this upgrade to the core network are being provided to all local internet service providers at no additional cost.

Cable & Wireless engineers are currently working to resolve a small number of technical issues that have arisen during this major upgrade. This has meant a slight delay to start of the planned roll-out, however the full island-wide upgrade it is still expected to be complete by 31st March 2008.