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july 18, 2018 - Sassy Films
First UK Families Receive Vodafone Gigabit Speed Home Broadband
Over a million homes in the UK could benefit from full fibre broadband
WEDNESDAY 18 JULY 2018: Vodafone has today begun offering home broadband speeds of 1 gigabit per second (1,000Mbps) – about 20 times the current UK average.
50 customer homes in Milton Keynes will be the first to test #Vodafone Gigafast Broadband – a new full fibre home broadband service – before it is made widely available.
Vodafone Gigafast Broadband runs over fibre optic cables at every stage of the connection to the #internet, instead of using old copper-based wires. This means households will enjoy a faster and more reliable broadband service, and will enable family members in a busy household to go online at the same time, using multiple devices.
With #Vodafone Gigafast Broadband, everyday tasks that rely on transferring data can also be completed faster than ever before. Uploading a memory card containing 16GB of holiday snaps and videos to the Cloud takes just two minutes, versus the current UK average of five hours and 44 minutes. And backing up a 200GB hard drive to the Cloud takes less than half an hour – instead of nearly three days.
Micaela Perez Amaro, a dance instructor and mother of two, who was one of the first families to test the broadband said:
“Before we started using #Vodafone Gigafast Broadband, I couldn’t work from home. There’s no reliable broadband where I live in Milton Keynes, so every time I wanted to send a video to a student, I had to drive to a relative’s house in London to use their broadband.”
Nick Jeffery, #Vodafone UK Chief Executive, said:
“Full fibre is vital to our digital economy and to the UK’s future as a digital leader, yet just 3% of UK premises currently have access to it. That’s why we are offering #Vodafone Gigafast Broadband and making it available on a mass scale, reaching a million UK homes by 2021.”
At the same time, demand for connected home technologies is growing. Currently about a third of UK homes contain three or more connected devices, and that number is projected to reach an average of 8.7 connected devices by 2021.
With that in mind, #Vodafone is also expanding its V by #Vodafone range with two new wearables and a smart home kit. All three products have been designed to make smart living a reality for the average family – with ease of use and value for money being top priorities.
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