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Launch-pad for £10 billion ICT Investment
Cardiff leads the way as an advanced ICT business location. The city is the launch-pad for BT’s new £10 billion 21st Century Network investment that will make Cardiff the first city in the world to have access to a fully integrated end-to-end Internet Protocol based telecommunications network.
Cardiff is home to an increasingly Competitive telecoms market. BT has a fully enabled presence in the city, and most of the business community has the choice of cable.
Cardiff also has a growing cluster of independent telecoms providers offering high-speed fibre and wireless solutions.
Cardiff is at the forefront of broadband and wireless roll-out in the UK. It was the first city in the UK to have significant wireless coverage, and will become one of the first to benefit from a contiguous wireless network across its central business district, through BT’s Wireless Cities Initiative. Cardiff also benefits from ubiquitous 8 MB broadband coverage, and is one of the first cities in the UK to benefit from BT’s roll-out of 24mb broadband in Summer 2009.
Cardiff is home to the acclaimed Intelligent Cities Initiative, a super-fast wireless network for the city’s media industry. It will soon benefit from a new European-class Render Farm providing huge data processing capacity for Cardiff’s burgeoning digital media sector.
The £90m Internet Data Centre in Cardiff offers secure data storage for your business – one of 22 such centres operated by BT worldwide regarded as a resource for international knowledge-based companies. In addition, Next Generation Data is to invest up to £200million within the city-region to create one of Europe’s largest and most technically advanced ‘green’ data-centres.
