More Scottish areas to benefit from superfast broadband next year
Another 45,600 homes and businesses in Scotland will benefit from superfast broadband next year, says BT.
Among the beneficiaries included in a £2.5 billion roll-out will be Galashiels, Peebles, Perth, Bannockburn, Morningside, in Edinburgh, and Strathaven in South Lanarkshire.
It will take the number of Scottish homes and businesses with access to the new fiber network to more than 372,000.
The latest upgrades are due to be completed by autumn 2012.
In announcing the latest phase of delivery, BT Scotland director Brendan Dick said BT's roll-out of superfast broadband was "marching on".
Dick said BT planned to take the superfast network to two-thirds of the UK by the end of 2015 but the company would not stop there.
He added: "We have long said reaching the final third will require a partnership approach and we welcome the fact that the UK government has recently allocated funding of hundreds of millions of pounds for next generation broadband initiatives for these more challenging areas."