Manchester City Region makes the case for fibre
Yesterday at 5pm we finally got the full submission into the NWDA to ask for just under £10M of investment to build a state of the art Open Access fibre to the premises (FTTP) network connecting up as many of the key employment sites in the city region as possible. The MDDA team, together with colleagues from the Community Broadband Network (CBN) and the Commission for the New Economy, have been working flat out on this since the beginning of January and we now believe we have the best possible case to put forward for this. This will now go in for appraisal and then we hope a positive decision will be made by the NWDA Board in March. This all follows the amazing response we got to the launch of the Corridor Fibre project when more than 200 businesses crammed into a room at 8am in the morning and told us, in no uncertain terms, that they wanted accessible and affordable real fibre now, not in 2017. We’re now working in partnership with the company which was the successful bidder from the tender process, Geo, to develop this. The new project will be subject to a separate tender. Watch this space for more info.
