Regional Business Information for the North West
City to pilot ultra fast broadband
29th June 2012
By Chris Barry - Editor, North West
MANCHESTER will be one of the first locations in the UK to test a new ultra-fast fibre broadband.BT’s local network business Openreach said the city was one of eight pilot locations for the new service known as ‘FTTP on Demand’. This product, which Openreach intends to make commercially available from early next year, will enable customers to order an ultra-fast 330Mbps broadband connection directly to their home or business in an area served by Fibre to the Cabinet (FTTC) technology. Previously, in order to recei......for the full story register now for free or login below...
I should bloody hope so. The state of connectivity in the centre of this City is appalling and I certainly hold BT partially to blame for this parlous state of affairs. Poor connectivity costs business and the economy money. This should have been dealt with years ago. To illustrate, we are in the Boxworks in Castlefield and we can get a maximum of 4Mb per line for our business. Absolutely unbelievably poor.
Simon Wharton