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Winter 2023 BDUK Update on UK Project Gigabit Broadband Rollout

15th December, 2023 (3 Comments)

The Building Digital UK agency has released their Winter 2023 (Dec) progress update on the £5bn Project Gigabit broadband rollout scheme, which is so far running live contracts and procurements worth over £2bn in state aid to help extend coverage to an extra 1.1 million hard to reach premises.

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Connect Fibre Win Derbyshire UK Gigabit Broadband Rollout Contract

15th December, 2023 (1 Comment)

The UK Government’s £5bn Project Gigabit broadband rollout scheme has today announced that they’ve awarded the regional £33m (state aid) rollout contract for Derbyshire (LOT 3) in England to ISP Connect Fibre, which will aim to extend their full fibre network to an additional 17,000+ premises in hard to reach rural areas.

BDUK Publish Evaluations of UK Gigabit Broadband Programmes

14th December, 2023 (1 Comment)

The Government’s executive Building Digital UK agency has today published a series of reports that evaluate different parts of their gigabit and full fibre broadband upgrade programmes, albeit broadly all focused on dark fibre style deployments to connect public sector sites (e.g. schools, council offices, hospitals etc.).

UK Gov Confirm Scotland to Get £450m for Gigabit Broadband Upgrade

14th December, 2023 (5 Comments)

The UK Government has finally revealed that Scotland’s share of the £5bn Project Gigabit broadband rollout scheme will be an “estimated” £450m, although market engagement work is ongoing (i.e. getting feedback from suppliers) and has yet to reach the procurement stage – this was originally supposed to happen in the autumn.

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Hampshire UK’s Rural Superfast Broadband Project Concludes

13th December, 2023 (0 Comments)

The Hampshire County Council (HCC) in England has concluded its state aid supported Superfast Broadband Programme (SFBB) and published a new report that summarises its “achievements and lessons learnt“. Overall, the project helped to extend superfast (30Mbps+) speeds from 80% in 2012 to 97.8% today, exceeding its 95% target.

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Fibrus Pulls Out of North East Project Gigabit Broadband Rollout UPDATE

12th December, 2023 (22 Comments)

Infracapital-backed UK broadband ISP Fibrus, which is building a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across Northern Ireland and North England, has confirmed to ISPreview that they’ve had to pull out of the state aid supported Project Gigabit contract for the North East of England. But existing builds will continue.

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Openreach Extend FTTP to 44K Premises in Wales Under Gov Contract UPDATE

6th December, 2023 (6 Comments)

Openreach has today revealed that their £57m state aid supported Phase 2 Superfast Cymru contracts with the Welsh Government (WG), which required them to extend their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP network to 39,000 extra premises in rural Wales, ultimately delivered 44,000 and came in under budget.

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Quickline Complete Lincolnshire BDUK Rollout of Ultrafast Broadband

30th November, 2023 (11 Comments)

Broadband ISP Quickline, which is rolling out a gigabit-capable wireless and Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across North East England, has today announced the completion of their £8.1m contract to cover 8,000 premises in rural parts of Lincolnshire with “superfast” (30Mbps+) and “ultrafast” (100Mbps+) broadband.

Labour Party Pledge to Protect £5bn UK Gigabit Broadband Project

29th November, 2023 (57 Comments)

Chris Bryant, the UK Labour Party’s Shadow Minister for the Creative Industries & Digital, has perhaps unsurprisingly indicated that – should the party be elected at the next General Election – they would honour the Government’s existing £5bn Project Gigabit broadband roll-out programme. But some market intervention may occur.

GoFibre Completes First Phase of Rural Teesdale Full Fibre Rollout

27th November, 2023 (0 Comments)

Rural broadband ISP GoFibre (BorderLink), which is building a 10Gbps capable full fibre (FTTP) network across the North of England and Scottish Borders area, has announced that they’ve completed the first phase of their £6.6m state-aid supported Project Gigabit contract in rural Teesdale – putting services live across 885 covered homes.

Gigabit Broadband Contracts Awarded for Oxfordshire and Staffordshire UK UPDATE

25th November, 2023 (10 Comments)

The UK Government’s £5bn Project Gigabit broadband rollout scheme has today announced two new contracts, which sees ISP Gigaclear awarded £26.5m to cover around 10,000 rural premises in North and South Oxfordshire. At the same time, Connect Fibre has scooped a £16.5m deal to cover 6,000 premises in North East Staffordshire.

New Digital UK Map of Underground Cables Looks to Expand

24th November, 2023 (9 Comments)

The Government’s National Underground Asset Register (NUAR), which represents a new digital UK map of underground pipes and cables (broadband, power, water etc.) – intended to help reduce accidental damage, has released a progress update that suggests the map could be expanded and possibly even made accessible to the public.

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2023 Autumn Statement Boosts UK Full Fibre and 5G Builds – Full Expensing

22nd November, 2023 (12 Comments)

The Chancellor of the UK government, Jeremy Hunt, has today given his 2023 Autumn Statement, which among other things has announced that the new “Full Expensing” policy will be made permanent. The change will help some full fibre broadband and mobile operators to bring down the cost of their network roll-outs. Planning tweaks are also coming.

Rural ISP Wessex Internet Get £35m to Boost UK Full Fibre Build

13th November, 2023 (8 Comments)

Gigabit broadband ISP and network builder Wessex Internet has secured £35 million of addition funding, including a Senior Debt Facility from Triodos Bank UK, which will be used to help fuel their deployment of a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) service across rural parts of Dorset, Wiltshire, Hampshire and Somerset in England.

Brsk Builds UK Full Fibre Broadband to Cover 350,000 Premises UPDATE

9th November, 2023 (3 Comments)

Network builder and broadband ISP Brsk, which is deploying a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across the Midlands (rollout plan), has today announced that their infrastructure has grown to cover 350,000 premises (up from 266k on 8th August 2023).

R100 FTTP Broadband Build in Scotland Hits 42,000 Premises

6th November, 2023 (0 Comments)

The Scottish Government has published a small progress update on their £600m Reaching 100% (R100) project with Openreach (BT), which reveals that an additional 42,000 premises (up from 24,194 in late May 2023) have now been covered by their rollout of a new “superfast broadband” (30Mbps+) capable ISP network.

England is Top of FarrPoint’s New UK Digital Readiness Index

23rd October, 2023 (0 Comments)

Technical UK consultancy firm FarrPoint has today published their first Digital Connectivity Readiness Index (DCRI), which is designed to enable policymakers and digital leaders to identify where a region performs well and where challenges remain when it comes to mobile (4G, 5G), gigabit broadband, skills and other areas.