Hampshire UK Extends BDUK FTTC Broadband Rollout to Reach 95%

Leaders of the Hampshire County Council have voted to release £9.2 million to help extend their state aid supported roll-out of BT’s superfast broadband (FTTC/P) services from its current target of 90% to 95%, which of course mirrors the new national UK target.

The original £13.8 million project planned to reach “at least” 90% of local premises by the end of 2015 and adding the extra 5% is likely to push the completion date into late 2016 or sometime in 2017. But thanks to the new investment an additional 27,000 premises are now expected the benefit.

Meanwhile Phase 1 of the deployment will begin between January and March 2014. BTOpenreach will install new equipment across parts of Basingstoke and Dean, Gosport, Hart, and the New Forest, enabling more than 9,000 premises to have access to superfast broadband. Speeds will be a minimum of 24Mbps, although more than 7,300 of those premises should be able to access speeds 50Mbps+.

Hampshire’s Superfast Broadband Programme
http://www3.hants.gov.uk/broadband.htm