Eclipse Internet orders wholesale FTTC from BT

ISP offers business grade FTTC, but deployment areas limited by BT rollout speed

Eclipse Internet offers business fibre

Eclipse Internet is deploying businesses connections in areas with fibre-to-the-cabinet connections despite BT's rollout of the technology still being in its early stages.

The service will be available from 12 April, with two grades being offered: a standard service called Eclipse Fibre costing £39.95, and a premium service called Eclipse Fibre Pro costing £49.95. The service is differentiated on download limits and uplink speeds.

The Pro version has a 60GB download maximum, up to 10Mbit/s upload speed and a free ADSL/WAN router. The standard version comes with a 50GB maximum, up to 2Mbit/s upload and the ADSL router is free. Both have maximum download connections of up to 40Mbit/s, with guaranteed bandwidth of 12Mbit/s.

No details of where service deployment is planned were announced.

BT announced its £1.5bn intention to rollout both FTTC and fibre-to-the-home/premises (FTTH/FTTP) in July 2008, aiming to connect 40 per cent of residential and business premises to the technology. A faster pace for the rollout was announced by BT last May, and last October it announced its first FTTH trials.