Chris Townsend BDUK INCA Rural Broadband 29-10-2014

Broadband Delivery UK

Transforming Rural Broadband: Innovative Projects, Innovative Communities

Chris Townsend – CEO Broadband Delivery UK

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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

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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

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A more active marketplace…

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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

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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

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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

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...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

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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

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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

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Thank-you