Faster broadband for Culcheth!

MORE than 38,000 homes across Cheshire, including Culcheth, will have access to faster broadband by the Summer of next year.
BT has announced that Culcheth will included in the latest roll-out plans for BT’s next generation broadband service delivered over copper lines.
The BT investment makes available broadband speeds of up to 20 megabits per second (Mbps) – more than double the maximum speeds previously available to the majority of UK homes and businesses.
The technology is already available to more than 364,000 homes and businesses across Cheshire, and is expected to reach 90 per cent of North West premises by the Summer of next year.
The new next generation broadband network is available on an open, wholesale basis to all companies providing broadband services.
This investment is in addition to the £2.5 billion BT roll-out of super-fast fibre-based broadband, which is expected to bring even faster speeds to two-thirds of UK premises by the end of 2014.
Mike Blackburn, BT’s North West regional director, said: “BT’s roll-out of faster broadband across Cheshire is running at a very rapid pace.
“We have already announced plans to make super-fast fibre-based broadband available to more than 1.7 million homes and businesses in the region by the end of next year. Now we are able to confirm a further major investment in faster broadband speeds over copper lines.
“Nobody is doing more than BT to roll-out faster broadband across the North West. At a time of economic uncertainty these major improvements will provide a big boost for local businesses and offer many additional educational and entertainment opportunities for local households.
“And we want to go further. We want to work with the public sector to find ways of bringing faster broadband to areas, which are geographically and commercially more challenging.”