BT is doing its best in order to deploy fibre optic broadband all over the country - this is why it decided to employ an additional 400 engineers to help the ISP to speed up the rollout process.

As previously (the company applied the same scheme a year ago), BT underlined that the new recruits would be ex-armed forces members (i.e. former Royal Navy, British Army, RAF, Royal Air Force etc).

The CEO of BTOpenreach, Olivia Garfield, said in an accompanying statement:

"I'm delighted to be able to recruit these extra engineers.

"Our engineers are doing a fantastic job keeping the copper network in shape, as well as deploying fibre at breakneck speed, and the new recruits will help us go even further, faster."

The delay in the deployment works has happened because of the Olympics (the rollout had to be brought to a standstill for a while) and unworkable weather conditions.

The plan is to recruit people who are able to travel all around the country in order to build a mobile engineering army that needs little notice before its next fibre optic broadband rollout (mostly FTTC upgrades) mission.