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INCA Transforming Rural Broadband Seminar 29-10-2014 rural, broadband, fibre, wireless, community
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Broadband Delivery UK
Transforming Rural Broadband: Innovative Projects, Innovative Communities
Chris Townsend – CEO Broadband Delivery UK
Department for Culture, Media & Sport
BDUK progress in numbers
Phase 1 superfast roll-out
44 projects across the UK;
40,000 new premises per week;
2 million premises passed
expected by early 2015;
5 Rural Community Broadband Fund
projects up and running
Improved mapping availability
47 projects in procurement process
Phase 2 superfast roll-out
Department for Culture, Media & Sport
BDUK progress in numbers
Over 4,000 vouchers issued
600 + registered suppliers
Wi-Fi on buses in Oxford and
trams in Edinburgh
Over 1000 public buildings
with free Wi-Fi
2 sites live (Devon and North Yorkshire)
100 + in negotiation
Mobile Infrastructure ProjectSuperConnected Cities
Department for Culture, Media & Sport
A more active marketplace…
Department for Culture, Media & Sport
Approx. 1 % - most remote areas / most isolated premises
Approx. 1% - cities
Approx. 3% - rural areas and can be reached with a variety of technical solutions
The final 5% - what do we know?
Postcodes modelled to be covered by
Commercial, Phase 1 and 2
The final 5%
Modelled coverage of Superfast Broadband
Department for Culture, Media & Sport
Market Test PilotsSupplier Activity Host local body
Avanti plc Superfast satellite services for 1,000 end users
Scottish GovernmentDETI Northern Ireland
AB Internet Fixed wireless network for 1,600 end users in Monmouthshire
Welsh Government
Airwave Four next-generation wireless systems including TV white space and Wi-Fi at 2.4Ghz/5.8Ghz
North Yorkshire
Callflow Hybrid engineering techniques/solutions to achieve NGA delivery
Hampshire
Cybermoor Leveraging social investment Northumberland
MLL A common OSS / BSS platform for ISPs to access small network providers
Kent
Quickline Testing a range of line of sight, near line of sight and non-line of site technologies
North Lincolnshire
Satellite Internet Superfast satellite and satellite as a backhaul solution
Devon and Somerset
Department for Culture, Media & Sport
Emerging findings: more variety is possible…
Multiple technologies, designs and
equipment types could meet Next Generation
Access approval criteria at affordable
prices for consumers
Superfast satellite should provide a
workable solution for the most remote
properties
Pilots won’t give us all the answers – more
good ideas out there. We continue to work
with a range of suppliers
Department for Culture, Media & Sport
...but commercial case can be challenging
While capable of rapid deployment, wireless is not necessarily the lowest cost solution in
all rural areas
Public subsidy required varies widely
and is highly dependent on
geography and technology
Take-up rates not yet known and will affect which areas can be
addressed with commercially
sustainable solutions
Department for Culture, Media & Sport
Emerging findings: alternative financing is making progress
Sources of alternative financing including
loan and social investment funding
are not well developed but...
…standardised approaches being
developed as part of the Cybermoor pilot’s “broadband-in-a-box” toolkit have potential
Department for Culture, Media & Sport
Next steps
• Suppliers will publish feasibility reports soon and deployment commences from November.
• The first live services will be available in April 2015. Some projects will complete the build in six months. Others will take until March 2016.
• Next major learning expected in March 2015 Updated commercial models Early deployment challenges Customer engagement Levels of local interest and support
Department for Culture, Media & Sport
Thank-you