In a move that will support the UK government's plan for creating the best broadband network in Europe by 2015, BT recently announced that it intends adding up to 40 rural market towns to its ongoing fibre roll-out; along with the trial of 1Gbps residential fibre broadband in Kesgrave, Suffolk.

According to the details forwarded by BT, the addition of almost 40 rural market towns will comprise the forthcoming phase of exchanges listed for upgrade to superfast fibre broadband.

Though BT elaborated that it plans to offer services in 40 rural markets towards the end of 2011, the company did not make any official disclosure about the market towns that it has earmarked for the broadband upgrades.

About the trial of 1Gbps fibre broadband in Suffolk, BT said that the key purpose of the technical trial is to exhibit the maximum speeds that can be achieved using the company's Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) product.

Noting that these speeds will be 1Gbps downstream and 400Mb/s upstream to both businesses and consumers, BT added that the mentioned speeds are nearly ten times speedier than the company's initial FTTP service which is scheduled for a next year launch in the UK.

Further revealing that, under current plans, BT's fibre will extend to 66 percent of the UK, the company's director of strategy Oliva Garfield said: "We intend to continually push the limits of our super-fast broadband programme in terms of the technology and the geography."