[2] It adopted its present name on 23 May 2018 as part of BT's renaming of its entire broadband portfolio which is "designed to be simpler and more descriptive".
Infinity forms part of BT's £1.5bn plan to make superfast broadband available to 40% of the UK by the summer of 2012, using FTTC and FTTP services.
[6] Previously, the only major provider of domestic super fast broadband in the UK was Virgin Media's hybrid fibre-coaxial service.
[7] Neither Virgin Media nor BT's 'up-to 76 Mbit/s' Infinity actually use optical fibre to supply super fast broadband to the home, but rather still rely on copper, which can be sensitive to electromagnetic interference.
The winners would be the 5 areas served by a telephone exchange that received the most percentage votes out of its "total connections" by 31 December 2010.
[15] In March 2012, BT announced that they would be upgrading all of their packages to take advantage of their newer and much faster 100 Mbit/s fibre-optic technology.
[24] On 16 December 2012 David Cameron was supplied with an in-depth report indicating that the intelligence services had very grave doubts regarding Huawei, in that the UK governmental, military, business community and private citizen's privacy may be under serious threat.
[25] On 7 June 2013, British lawmakers concluded that BT should never have allowed the Chinese company access to the UK's critical communications network without ministerial oversight, saying they were 'deeply shocked' that BT did not inform government that they were allowing Huawei and ZTE, both foreign entities with ties to the Chinese military unfettered access to critical national systems.
Furthermore, ministers discovered that the agency with responsibility to ensure Chinese equipment and code, was 'threat-free' was entirely staffed by Huawei employees.