{"id":3407,"date":"2013-06-03T09:52:11","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T08:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=3407"},"modified":"2013-06-03T09:53:02","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T08:53:02","slug":"metronet-uk-brings-hybrid-fibre-and-wireless-broadband-to-chester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/06\/metronet-uk-brings-hybrid-fibre-and-wireless-broadband-to-chester.html","title":{"rendered":"MetroNet UK Brings Hybrid Fibre and Wireless Broadband to Chester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As expected ISP Metronet UK has expanded the coverage of its &#8220;<em>ultrafast<\/em>&#8221; hybrid fibre optic (Dark Fibre) and carrier grade wireless broadband network to reach businesses in the city\u00a0of Chester (North West England).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The service, which has already signed up its first customers in the area (e.g. <strong>Chester Racecourse<\/strong>), is typically aimed towards businesses and tends to focus on areas where there is high demand for a better service due to the existence of poor fixed line infrastructure.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Lee Lawrence, Metronet&#8217;s Operations Director, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>We know that there are areas of Cheshire that suffer from really poor connectivity. The \u2018Connecting Cheshire\u2019 project claims that across Cheshire, broadband services are 5% below the national average and seeks to deliver superfast services to Cheshire by 2016. At Metronet (UK), we believe that this isn\u2019t ambitious enough.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>With our unique hybrid approach to connectivity our customers can be guaranteed that their business Internet will be ultrafast, not just merely superfast and what\u2019s more, we can deliver in a few weeks, not a few years<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The expansion comes only two weeks after Metronet UK expanded its hybrid network to reach areas of Widnes, Runcorn and Speke in Liverpool (Merseyside, England). 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