BT achieves efficiencies through fibre broadband innovations

Innovative fibre optic broadband solutions have allowed BT to achieve efficiencies during its Superfast Cornwall rollout.

The telecoms giant has pioneered several innovations in Cornwall, including the installation of lightweight overhead fibre optic cables.

These groundbreaking techniques have helped the company save enough money to significantly increase the coverage target for the project, from the original goal of at least 80 per cent of local homes and businesses to 95 per cent of properties.

Liv Garfield, chief executive of BT's local access network business Openreach, said: "We have been able to test run some new innovations in the county and as a result we have delivered efficiencies which are now enabling us to go further than we first thought possible."

BT is not the only firm to trial super-fast broadband delivery via overhead cables. In 2010, Virgin Media and Surf Telecoms tested out so-called 'aerial deployment' in the villages of Crumlin and Woolhampton.