BT's fibre broadband roll-out plans - graduate jobs

BT has announced that two-thirds of the UK will have access to super-fast broadband by 2014, a year earlier than the previous target of 2015, a news that could be of interest to graduates looking for a job in the telecommunications industry.

The telecoms giant hopes to achieve this by recruiting 520 new engineers, some of whom will be ex-armed forces personnel.

It aims to meet the revised deadline by bringing forward £300 million of its £2.5 billion total investment in commercial fibre broadband.

By next year, BT will be providing the new super-fast technology to 10 million UK premises, up from the current six million.

Ian Livingstone, chief executive of BT, said: "Our roll-out of fibre broadband is one of the fastest in the world and so it is great to be ahead of what was an already challenging schedule."

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