{"id":10084,"date":"2015-09-09T08:15:24","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T07:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=10084"},"modified":"2015-09-09T08:15:24","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T07:15:24","slug":"virgin-media-broadband-to-reach-3000-businesses-in-manchester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/09\/virgin-media-broadband-to-reach-3000-businesses-in-manchester.html","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Media Broadband to Reach 3,000 Businesses in Manchester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cable operator <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginmediabusiness.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Media Business<\/a> has today confirmed that 3,000 businesses in over 300 buildings will benefit from the on-going expansion of their ultrafast broadband network in Manchester, which is currently being deployed to 150,000 extra premises (mostly homes) in the city.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The <strong>\u00a375m<\/strong> Manchester network expansion was first confirmed in July 2015 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/06\/huge-virgin-media-uk-cable-broadband-expansion-begins-in-manchester.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>), although at the time it wasn&#8217;t clear how many of the premises involved would be businesses. The project forms part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Media<\/a>&#8217;s wider \u00a33bn <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/02\/virgin-media-expand-uk-cable-broadband-network-17-million-premises-2020.html\" target=\"_blank\">Project Lightning<\/a> <\/strong>deployment, which aims to expand the reach of their cable network to <strong>17 million premises<\/strong> by 2020 (60%+ UK coverage).<\/p>\n<p>Once all of this work is complete then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Media<\/a>\u00a0will have covered a total of 450,000 premises in Manchester, including a fair few in some nearby &#8220;<em>postal towns<\/em>&#8220;. The roll-out is also being supported by the Government\u2019s <strong>UK Guarantees Scheme<\/strong>, which exists to help infrastructure projects raise debt finance (Guarantees for up to \u00a340 billion in aggregate can be offered).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Peter Kelly, MD of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginmediabusiness.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Media Business<\/a>, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>A central part of any technology hub is reliable, secure high-speed internet. This can make the difference between thriving and merely surviving for small and medium sized businesses so I\u2019m thrilled we\u2019re able to bring Manchester\u2019s vibrant business community our latest package with the fastest broadband speeds<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Richard Leese, Leader of Manchester Council, added:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Media<\/a> Business\u2019 investment in Manchester is very welcome. Quick, reliable broadband is the backbone of our digital economy, transforming the way businesses operate and the services they can provide. This announcement represents a bespoke ultra-fast broadband package for small and medium enterprises and will help support some of Manchester\u2019s most digitally minded and creative businesses<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently most of the 3,000 businesses that will benefit are based in the city&#8217;s Northern Quarter, which recently won an extra \u00a34m from the Government to help build the area into a technology focused start-up hub.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cable operator Virgin Media Business has today confirmed that 3,000 businesses in over 300 buildings will benefit from the on-going expansion of their ultrafast broadband network in Manchester, which is currently being deployed to 150,000 extra premises (mostly homes) in the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[472,475],"class_list":["post-10084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-business","tag-virgin-media"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - 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