The company could give no guarantee that customers would get the theoretical maximum 24Mbps speed promised by ADSL2+.

BT said ADSL2+ would reach a “potential footprint of 10 million homes and businesses by the spring of 2009″. “BT appear to have reverted to the sloth of the Home Highway period, rather than building upon their more recent successes in extending DSL’s UK availability so widely,” said Mr Fogg. Writing on his blog: “If this is BT’s 21st century network then those fibre to the home networks are for the 22nd century.” Some ISPs in the UK, such as Sky and O2, have already begun to offer ADSL2+ in the UK by deploying their own technology in exchanges.

Jupiter analyst Ian Fogg said the roll-out was “tardy” and available to “a tiny fraction” of UK households. I agree. I’m still stuck with 1mb broadband, when they will update my speed?!