Be Broadband had previously announced that it would be completing a massive and wide-scale fibre rollout by 2013.
However, the firm has been forced to push back their deadline due to unforeseen delays.
Be Broadband, which is owned by O2, explained that it was unlikely that the provider could deliver fibre-to-the-cabinet (FTTC) services by next year.
They gave no indication as to the reasons for the delay.
In a blog post, Be said: We’re afraid we re not making very good progress on fibre.
There are lots of reasons for this, but the bottom line is we re unlikely to launch a service across the BE network in 2012.
Be added: Many of you told us you were prepared to wait for a fibre service from BE, so we re sorry to bring you this news and for keeping you waiting.
We re still looking into launching a service on a limited basis later this year, combining our unshaped, unlimited network with the higher speeds of fibre-to-the-cabinet.
It’s just taking much longer than we’d like.
This isn t the first time that Be has had to inform its customers that they were pushing back the deadlines of some of their broadband rollouts.
A fibre service was also delayed after the firm conducted a pre-registration program back in 2011.
Chris Stening, head of Be Broadband, said in an earlier blog post: Our plans for fibre have to be something unlimited and unshaped too, otherwise it simply defeats the object of having greater speed.
It’s great to be told you could get speeds up to some high level, but with traffic management it is unlikely you ll get it for long.
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