Esprit Telecom Group plc (Reading, UK) and Fibernet (Calleva Park, UK) announced an agreement that

Esprit Telecom Group plc (Reading, UK) and Fibernet (Calleva Park, UK) announced an agreement that gives Esprit Telecom wholesale access to TANet, Fibernet`s national Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) backbone network. The deal offers Esprit Telecom national network access across the United Kingdom by making available TANet`s 35-city fiber-optic network. In return, TANet will directly connect to Esprit Telecom`s pan-European network. Both networks use the same SDH transmission technology and operate at minimum speeds of STM-16 (2.5 Gbits/sec).