British Telecom and resellers: Other providers: May 2010 BT announced £2.5 billion plans to roll out a mixture of VDSL2 FTTC (75%) and GPON FTTP (25%) to 66% of the UK by 2015 with VDSL2 speeds starting at 40 Mbit/s down 10 Mbit/s up potentially rising to 60 Mbit/s down 15 Mbit/s up.
[98] In October 2011, BT announced that this roll-out was being accelerated such that it would be completed by 2014 (one year earlier than originally planned).
[99] In April 2012 BT introduced new product download speeds of up to 80 Mbit/s down and 20 Mbit/s up on its VDSL2 network.
BT announce FTTP On Demand — a GPON-based service to extend the fibre overlay in FTTC areas direct to the home to subscribers willing to pay (install costs not yet announced expected to be in high hundreds of pounds).
The trial eventually resulted in Vtesse Networks running the final service without Virgin Media's involvement under their own brand on 1 October 2010.