High-speed fibre broadband rolled out
Date published: 26 March 2015
Tony Gaffey, Openreach, Councillor Peter Williams, Garry Rooney, Openreach, Tony Morgan, BT
Almost 900 Rochdale borough businesses and households can now benefit from high-speed fibre broadband rolled out by the £15 million Get Digital Faster programme.
Twelve green street fibre broadband cabinets have already gone live across parts of Rochdale, Heywood and Middleton, making fibre broadband available to 880 homes and businesses so far.
By March 2016, Rochdale Borough will have a further 35 street cabinets bringing high-speed fibre broadband to almost 3,300 homes and businesses across the Rochdale area, thanks to the £15 million Get Digital Faster partnership involving Rochdale Council and BT.
Residents and businesses in Rochdale can look forward to download speeds of up to 80 megabits per second and upload speeds of up to 20Mbps .
This will bring major benefits to homes and businesses alike. Businesses will be able to conduct their transactions more quickly and efficiently and households will be able to surf the internet, download large files of information, upload photographs and download music, films and television programmes all at the same time, and more quickly than ever before,
The Get Digital Faster programme, launched in June 2014, has already delivered 205 cabinets across Greater Manchester, bringing fibre broadband to more than 18,000 homes and businesses.
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