British Telecom's "Race to Infinity" broadband upgrade competition, which was designed to increase interest in the carrier’s fibre broadband products in rural areas, has concluded on Friday night.

As of Friday, all the customers in the top six areas had registered their interest in the scheme.

Whitchurch in Hampshire, Baschurch in Shropshire, Innerleithen in the Scottish Borders, Caxton in Cambridgeshire, Madingley in Cambridgeshire, Blewbury in Oxfordshire and Marton in Warwickshire were the areas in which all the customers expressed interest for the high speed internet network.

Whitchurch is on the top position on the list because of its larger population of customers totaling 2,460. Baschurch came second with 1,432 voters and Innerleithen on third with 1,956 votes.

More than 2,000 areas participated in the campaign, however only 20 areas recorded more than 1,000 votes required to be included for consideration. The company has said that it will look at areas here more than 75 percent of customers voted but did not commit to providing internet access.

BT has said that the winner of the competition will be announced in the first week of January and that exchanges will be enabled “by early 2012”.

The UK government has said that it would make £530 million available to help companies reach other rural areas. BT claimed that fibre network, which will be open to all other communication providers, is one of the fastest networks in the world.