The launch of a new 40Mb broadband service, has been declared by BE Broadband using two lines “bonded” together for increasing speeds.

The users can avail this new service from February, and following trials during 2009. According to a statement made by BE, it expects from the customers on a 20Mb broadband line to double their download speeds to up to 40Mb followed by an upload speed of 5Mb uploads. Although, the ISP added that because “it’s significantly more complicated to get line bonding running compared to a single connection”, only the existing Pro customers will be provided with the line bonding with a few number of orders to start with.
The interested customers are also warned about the high price of the service. According to Tom Williams, head of operations at BE: “Pricing is yet to be finalised, but it won’t be cheap. It’s taking quite a lot of overhead and resource to bring the product out which is reflected in the price. We think the connection fee will be around £85 and the discounted cost for existing members around £50-£55 per month.”

In order to make the Line bonding work, two copper wire ADSL lines are combined for doubling the  broadband speed. But this doesn’t mean that the people who are looking forward to join this service need to pay line rental on two lines from BT Broadband which further adds to its price.

Michael Phillips, Broadbandchoices.co.uk product director, said: MP: “BE’s line bonding service will be available to around 70% of BT lines, allowing users who are not connected to Virgin Media’s 50Mb broadband network – or who don’t want to switch to cable – to boost their download speeds, albeit at a high monthly cost.”