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Introduced this month, the system will allow 20,000 households to surf the web and download material at speeds up to 2,000 times faster than present services. Users will, for example, be able to download all 32,640 pages of the Encyclopaedia Britannica in less than seven seconds, managers of the government-funded project said.

Most commercially-available broadband connections operate at a speed of 2 megabits per second (2Mb/s), but the Shoreditch project can access internet images and content at a speed of up to 2 billions of bits per second (2Gb/s).

Source: TimesOnline

I mentioned about 100Mbps broadband just a while ago (click here) and now 2Gbps connection is already out?? Not for everyone though, lucky those people who are staying in Shoreditch, East London! (anyone of you from East London?) I wonder how long will it take for this high-speed broadband to be available to other consumers, and how much will it cost?

Also, could this be the answer to all the critisms on how the UK is much behind other developed countries in terms of providing a high-speed broadband service?