Perseverance Works and Printing House Yard E8 2DD, Shoreditch

Market Failure or a New Market?

Case Study provides a summary of all issues needing addressing on a national scale, and by UBF in particular.

Mike Kielywww.thebitcommons.com

30/04/2013 -Mike Kiely, Draft For discussion only.

Perseverance Works.Surrounded by Fibre but still starved of it.

11/09/2012 -Mike Kiely, Draft For discussion only.

• 89 businesses, mostly in the TV, games, media sector.

• Increasingly dependent on connectivity, for exchanging very large files.

• Two FTTC cabinets deployed in area but not serving site.

• All exchanges lines come direct from Shoreditch exchange.

• Openreach Fibre bundles serving two companies on site, Splice TV paying £12k pa for 100Mbps, Touch Digital paying £7k pa for 50Mbps. Bulk file transfers, - not live broadcast streams.

• Spov TV – makers of Call Of Duty have left the site due the shortcomings of current generation broadband services.

• A functioning fibre access market in urban areas should deliver a choice of fibre access providers at c £40 a month retail for 100Mbps symmetric Broadband access service. This is what best in Europe now means for urban customers.

• Consistent with the wishes of the SOS and objectives of BDUK and GLA UBF.

Fibre Entry points at Perseverance Works.

11/09/2012 -Mike Kiely, Draft For discussion only.

Fibre Access Options for Preseverance Works.

• BT Fibre on Demand from April 29th.

• Virgin & OthersNow inviting requests

Own Build - indicative costings for £1500 a tenant, but interested parties can quote

Above yields control to a single operator and single operators design and interests.

Building Operator ModelPassives and patch panel to each tenant at £1,000. These could be used by more than one operator.

11/09/2012 -Mike Kiely, The Bit Commons Draft For industry discussion only.

BT – minimum term is 36 months.

Construction - £600 + other time related charges if they occur.

Connection -£500 Wholesale rental annual

89 companies £53,400 £44,500 £456

Actions and next Steps for FTTP access.

• Perseverance Works summarises many of the issues that need addressing for a successful implementation of the Urban Broadband Fund on a small understandable scale.

• This case does represent the authentic voice of the customer and in an unambiguous way and sets out what best in Europe means for the end customer.

• We are issuing a RFI to BT, Virgin and other interested vendors requesting costs and commitments /confirmation of offers. Data book available.

• We are requesting trial status from BDUK/GLA UBF to test their incentive options at this site.

• We are requesting DCMS policy and Ofcom to support and test The Building Operator model as a means to accelerate investment and competition in local fibre access networks.

• The above will be conducted in the form of 30 day public consultation, where all the materials will be available for others to build upon and learn .

Thank you.

11/09/2012 -Mike Kiely, Draft For discussion only.