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The Full Q2 – 2015 BDUK and BT UK “Fibre Broadband” Take-up Figures

Tuesday, Aug 25th, 2015 (1:00 pm) - Score 1,992

The state aid supported Broadband Delivery UK project, which is primarily working with BT to deploy superfast “fibre broadband” (FTTC/P) services across the United Kingdom, has now published its latest take-up figures to the end of June 2015 and more councils have now passed the crucial 20% threshold.

Understanding take-up is important because it links into a key clawback (gain share) clause in the BDUK contracts, which requires BT to return part of the investment when adoption of the new service passes beyond the 20% mark in related areas.

BT recently revised their related take-up target upwards to 30% (here) and as a result BDUK has now confirmed that clawback could be worth as much as £129 million across the United Kingdom, which can be reinvested to improve coverage.

The latest figures below only reflect uptake in areas that have been upgraded through the state aid fuelled BDUK schemes (i.e. % connected of premises passed so far), which excludes any uptake achieved through purely commercial deployments. Naturally for proper context the percentages below need to be considered alongside the premises passed data for each local authority (here)

Otherwise it’s good to see that a growing number of Local Authorities are now passing the 20% threshold and in order to show how this has changed we’ve also added the previous March 2015 data alongside.

Project Area Uptake % (March 2015) Uptake % (June 2015)
Berkshire Councils 11.2 18.5
Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire 15 18.7
Cambridgeshire, Peterborough 19.5 23.1
Central Beds, Bedford Borough, Milton Keynes 13.4 17.2
Cheshire East, Cheshire West & Chester, Warrington, Halton 16.1 18.4
Devon & Somerset (including, Plymouth, Torbay, North Somerset, Bath & NE Somerset) 13.3 14.8
Coventry, Solihull, Warwickshire 15.9 17.2
Cumbria 17.3 19.2
Derbyshire 9.1 11
Dorset, Bournemouth and Poole 12.9 14.3
Durham, Gateshead, Tees Valley and Sunderland 11.3 13.4
East Riding of Yorkshire 8 12.1
East Sussex, Brighton and Hove 13.9 16.4
Essex, Southend-On-Sea, Thurrock 11.2 14.3
Greater Manchester 8.5 11.4
Hampshire 17.6 19.3
Herefordshire and Gloucestershire 20.3 20.9
Isle of Wight 6.5 8.2
Kent and Medway 13.7 16.2
Lancashire, Blackpool, Blackburn with Darwen 14.3 15.4
Leicestershire 10.4 16.3
Lincolnshire 12.9 15.7
Merseyside 6.7 8.9
Newcastle upon Tyne 5.8 8.1
Norfolk 14.9 18.2
North Lincolnshire, North East Lincolnshire 15.3 19.2
North Yorkshire 23.5 25.6
Northamptonshire 21.3 23.3
Northumberland 16.1 18.4
Nottinghamshire 9.7 14.2
Oxfordshire 16.2 18.2
Rutland 39.8 42.3
Shropshire 16.9 19
Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent 10.7 13.3
Suffolk 17.1 17.9
Surrey 27.1 29.8
West Sussex 14.9 18
West Yorkshire 10.7 12.1
Wiltshire, South Gloucestershire 18.7 16.1
Worcestershire 12.5 15.6
Devolved Administrations
Highlands and Islands 11.6 13.1
Northern Ireland 8.5 9.6
Rest of Scotland 10.8 12.3
Wales 13.7 15.6

Take note that take-up is a dynamically scaled measurement, which means that at certain stages of the scheme it may go up or possibly even down depending upon the pace of deployment and other factors (e.g. Wiltshire, South Gloucestershire had 18.7% in Q1 and this is now 16.1%, but over time the take-up should only rise). In keeping with this some of the projects may report far lower take-up than others, although these are usually younger deployments.

Some of the other factors that can impact take-up include higher prices for FTTC/P services (less attractive), consumers being locked into long contracts with their existing ISP (can’t upgrade yet) and a lack of general availability awareness (locals don’t know it exists) or interest in the new connectivity (if you have a decent ADSL2+ speed then you might be less inclined to upgrade).

Mark-Jackson
By Mark Jackson
Mark is a professional technology writer, IT consultant and computer engineer from Dorset (England), he also founded ISPreview in 1999 and enjoys analysing the latest telecoms and broadband developments. Find me on X (Twitter), Mastodon, Facebook and .
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