Coventry launches roadshows to promote ultra-fast connectivity

COVENTRY is staging a series of roadshows to promote ultra-fast gigabit speed connectivity.

The ‘Gig Up Coventry’ roadshows are to highlight the fact the city is on the road to becoming one of the fastest connected cities in the world.

Businesses at Electric Wharf, on Sandy Lane were the first to attend a roadshow event hosted by the Coventry CORE.

The event was held at De Marco Solicitors and gave locally-based businesses heard that Coventry CORE pure fibre network will provide access to gigabit speed connectivity 100 times faster than the UK average and on a par with the world’s fastest cities such as Hong Kong and Stockholm.

More than 200 businesses have already registered an interest in the Coventry CORE network.

Coventry CORE’s city development manager Andy Starnes said: “The first Coventry CORE roadshow event was a great success and provided us with the perfect opportunity to give businesses at Electric Wharf an insight into how ultra-fast connectivity can help to enhance their operations.

“The Coventry CORE network will allow seamless online communication, almost immediate file transfers and a switch to cloud computing and we have already attracted interest from a wide variety of businesses including those in the creative sector, finance sector and IT industries.

“Over the next few months we will be visiting a number of key business and industrial parks situated within close proximity to the existing Coventry CORE network and where we have seen a high-level of interest from businesses looking to receive ultra-fast connectivity.”