Fortunate Contest

The much-anticipated rollout of the new FTTP (Fibre to the Premises) broadband services has finally started around the Oxford Road area in Manchester city.

The Manchester City Council had announced last year that it would provide the new FTTP network soon to everyone in the city. People in the area had been waiting to get their hands on the much faster speeds that come with the new technology. In fact, the City Council has claimed that broadband speeds would be nearly a thousand times faster once the new network starts functioning. However, the actual speed remains to be seen because most of the FTTP users claim that they are usually able to access speeds of ‘up to’ 100Mbps. The fact remains that a 100 Mbps speed is still quite impressive and the city’s residents realise that this is a major upgrade for them in terms of access to the latest in broadband services.

The establishment of the fibre optic network is a part of a much larger project that has been taken up by the Manchester City Council. Termed as Next Generation Digital City Project, it is focussed at bringing a digital revolution to this part of the UK.

Neil Swannick, the City Councillor, has claimed that with these high-speed broadband services, Manchester can claim to be in the top bracket of European cities in terms of digital telecommunications. He did acknowledge that the city still had a long way to go before it could compete with the likes of Paris and Amsterdam two cities that are known to provide the cheapest and the best in broadband technology.

Mr. Swannick further added that the endeavour of this project would extend beyond Manchester and would soon include other nearby locations such as East Manchester. Another part of the plan is to create a truly international Internet Hub in the Central Park area.

Once the rollout for the new service is complete, Manchester will be able to lay claim to having the latest in broadband technology, but it still has to compete in terms of the cost of these services that are significantly in excess when compared with other major cities in Europe.

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