BT rolling out fibre broadband to 17,600 Kirkcaldy properties

Fibre optic broadband will be rolled out to thousands of properties in the Scottish town of Kirkcaldy over the coming weeks, BT has announced.

Engineers have already brought the service to hundreds of local homes and businesses, with more than 17,600 set to be hooked up when the upgrades are finished.

Kirkcaldy is the latest Fife town to benefit from BT's £2.5 billion commercial fibre broadband deployment, with Dalgety Bay, Dunfermline and Inverkeithing having already been included in the rollout. 

Several more local communities - including Burntisland and Dysart - are earmarked for improvements, meaning that more than 114,000 Fife properties should be passed by BT's super-fast broadband network by the end of spring 2014.

Kirkcaldy MSP David Torrance welcomed the news, insisting it will be great for the whole town.

"Broadband plays a key part in Scotland's infrastructure and it's vital that we embrace the introduction of its super-fast version in Kirkcaldy in order for the local economy to remain competitive," he added.