BT will bring fibre optic cable broadband to a further four communities under its Race to Infinity initiative.

The telecoms giant announced the competition's six original winners - Baschurch in Shropshire, Blewbury in Oxfordshire, Caxton and Madingley in Cambridgeshire, Innerleithen in the Scottish Borders and Whitchurch in Hampshire - at the start of January.

This list has now been expanded to include the villages of Burley in Wharfedale in Yorkshire, Capel in Surrey, Lindfield in West Sussex and Marton in Warwickshire, with each of these communities due to get access to super-fast broadband by early 2012 at the latest.

More than six in ten residents in these communities voted in the contest, which was launched to determine the parts of the country with the greatest level of demand for the technology.

BT has also pledged to engage with any other towns and villages that are not among the winners, but where at least three-quarters of homes and businesses voted for their exchange to be upgraded.

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29th December 2012

can you tell me when normandy in surrey will be getting higher broadband speeds