According to recent reports, the Post Office decided on a big change. Its broadband service, based on BT's Wholesale technology will be transferred to Fujitsu's latest solution.

As a quick reminder, the Post Office has been stuck with delivering old up to 8Mbps broadband services, however after  the network switch to Fujitsu as well as TalkTalk (as a wholesale option) the speeds should increase to up to 20-24Mbps thanks to the newer ADSL2+ technology.

This would allow the ISP to offer customers more competitive bundles and give an opportunity to consider supplying FTTC services at some point.

Duncan Tait, CEO of Fujitsu UK & Ireland, was quoted as saying:

"As a partner to the Post Office since 1996, we [Fujitsu] listened carefully to their[Post Office's] requirements and aspirations and worked with the customer to leverage Fujitsu's IT and telecommunications innovation with the best in class partners in the UK market. Fujitsu is very excited to be involved in this project."

This means that existing customers (roughly 500,000 both phone and broadband users) should expect to be migrated onto the new network soon, although no concrete date has been given yet.

It has been suggested that the Post Office is adamant on bringing back competitive packages into the broadband market as the agreement with Fujitsu and TalkTalk saw the ISP splashing out £500m.