InGaAs metal-semiconductor-metal photodetectors with 0.21 mu m feature size finger electrodes have been fabricated. A pulse response lime of 3.8ps for 1.55 mu m light was measured by means of electro-optical sampling. A 3dB bandwidth of 70GHz was extracted from the time domain data. Polarisation-insensitive operation under front illumination was obtained by employing semicircular-type finger electrodes for the photodetectors with a 14 mu m diameter active area.