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Some good news for those who want to live life in the faster lane...

Fibre broadband boost for Greater Manchester

TELECOMS group BT is expanding its high-speed fibre broadband network, potentially benefitting 40,000 homes and businesses in Greater Manchester. BT is pumping £2.5bn nationally into the commercial roll-out of fibre broadband. The latest expansion will take place in communities such as Ardwick, Ashton-in-Makerfield, Bolton, Leigh, Manchester city centre, Oldham, Pendleton, Rochdale, Trafford and Wigan, which have already been upgraded, as well as in Atherton, Collyhurst, Daubhill, Droylsden, Gatley, Horwich,

If anyone has full access to the above perhaps they could post.


http://www.thebusinessdesk.com.

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Originally Posted by WingTips

Some good news for those who want to live life in the faster lane...

Fibre broadband boost for Greater Manchester

TELECOMS group BT is expanding its high-speed fibre broadband network, potentially benefitting 40,000 homes and businesses in Greater Manchester. BT is pumping £2.5bn nationally into the commercial roll-out of fibre broadband. The latest expansion will take place in communities such as Ardwick, Ashton-in-Makerfield, Bolton, Leigh, Manchester city centre, Oldham, Pendleton, Rochdale, Trafford and Wigan, which have already been upgraded, as well as in Atherton, Collyhurst, Daubhill, Droylsden, Gatley, Horwich,

If anyone has full access to the above perhaps they could post.


http://www.thebusinessdesk.com.

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TELECOMS group BT is expanding its high-speed fibre broadband network, potentially benefitting 40,000 homes and businesses in Greater Manchester.

BT is pumping £2.5bn nationally into the commercial roll-out of fibre broadband. The latest expansion will take place in communities such as Ardwick, Ashton-in-Makerfield, Bolton, Leigh, Manchester city centre, Oldham, Pendleton, Rochdale, Trafford and Wigan, which have already been upgraded, as well as in Atherton, Collyhurst, Daubhill, Droylsden, Gatley, Horwich, Longford and Wythenshawe, which are due to be upgraded later this year.

It will take the total number of premises with access to fibre broadband in Greater Manchester to more than 996,000 by the end of Spring 2014.

Mike Blackburn, BT’s regional director for the North West, said: “This is another important step forward for Greater Manchester. High-speed digital connectivity is vital to our long-term success.

“BT’s investment in fibre broadband allows communities to create new opportunities, growth and future potential. Anything you can think of doing online, you can do better with fibre broadband. It is a vital part of households and businesses making the most of the amazing opportunities increasingly offered by the internet.”

Matthew Kershaw, digital infrastructure policy manager at Greater Manchester Chamber welcomed the investment, stating: "The new services that the technology makes accessible are a huge boost for productivity, competitiveness, profitability and quality of life"

http://www.thebusinessdesk.com/north...s_section=4148

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Some new figures released...although I have to say my connection is not 12mbps...mine still averages approx 8-8.5

New Ofcom figures show a further upturn in UK broadband speeds.


The UK's average home broadband speed more than trebled in the four years to November 2012, according to Ofcom.

New research from the communications regulator showed that the average residential user could expect to receive speeds of 12Mbps last November, up from just 3.6Mbps at the same point in 2008. The latest figure represents an increase of one-third - or 3.1Mbps - over the preceding six months.

Ofcom attributed this upturn to the growing prevalence of higher-speed broadband services, with 77 per cent of consumers with a fixed-line connection subscribed to packages advertising headline speeds above 'up to' 10Mbps - an increase of 19 percentage points on the figure recorded a year earlier.

The proportion of super-fast broadband subscriptions is also on the up. Some 13 per cent of household connections offered these speeds in November 2012, compared with just five per cent in the corresponding month of 2011.

Ed Richards, chief executive of Ofcom, said: "Our research shows that UK consumers are adopting faster broadband packages to cater for their increasing use of bandwidth-heavy services such as video streaming

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