(Telecompaper) BT Openreach has announced the start of its G.fast trial in Huntingdon. Some 2,000 homes and premises will test the up to 330 Mbps service in the coming weeks. The trial will run for 6-9 months, allowing Openreach, the eight communications providers trialing the technology and BT's R&D division to assess the technical performance across a large footprint. Various methods of deployment will be used to provide insight into how the technology can be used on a day-to-day basis, including how usage might grow over time. If the G.fast trials in Hutingdon, Gosforth and Swansea prove successful, Openreach aims to start deploying G.fast in 2016/17 alongside its FttC and FttP services. The company believes that G.fast will enable it to make speeds of a few hundred megabits per second available to millions of homes by 2020 and deliver up to 500 Mbps to most of the UK within a decade as the technology is developed further.