Walsall to receive advanced fibre network

News from the Walsall Regeneration Company that they're going to be using the digging up of the Midlands town to implement an advanced fibre based network to deliver IP based technologies.

An excellent use of the opportunities that seem to be all too often missed when major building works are underway.

From the quotes in the press release this is clearly being worded around business use, but I'm sure some local consumers could find a use for the bandwidth too:

In what would be a UK first, Walsall Urban Regeneration Company (WRC) is looking to establish a multi million pound pilot project that will catapult the town and the region towards the top of the international business league.

With £500m of physical regeneration underway in Walsall town centre by 2010, WRC has identified the opportunity to embed this revolutionary technology within the fabric of the re-emerging market town and set up a world class research and training centre.

"With a number of transformational projects under way and major improvements to the ring road there is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to lay the foundations for fibre optics which will utterly transform the way we do business and how we use technology in the home," said WRC director Mohammad Nazir.