{"id":1060,"date":"2012-06-15T13:34:28","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T12:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=1060"},"modified":"2012-06-15T13:37:22","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T12:37:22","slug":"chi-onwurah-mp-accuses-eu-bias-favour-fibre-optic-broadband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/06\/chi-onwurah-mp-accuses-eu-bias-favour-fibre-optic-broadband.html","title":{"rendered":"Chi Onwurah MP Accuses EU of Bias in Favour of Ultrafast Fibre Broadband"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The local MP for Newcastle Central and Labour&#8217;s shadow minister for innovation and digital infrastructure, <strong>Chi Onwurah<\/strong>, has criticised the European Commission (EC) for having a &#8220;<em>bias in favour of fibre<\/em>&#8221; and switching its <strong>EU state aid rules<\/strong> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/06\/europe-switches-focus-from-basic-to-ultrafast-broadband-funding.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>) to focus more on &#8220;<em>ultra-fast<\/em>&#8221; (<strong>100Mbps+<\/strong>) fibre optic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ftth\">FTTH<\/a> style broadband networks.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The comments were made during this year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globaltelecomsbusiness.com\/Article\/3045743\/Communications-should-be-top-issue-for-politicians.html\" target=\"_blank\">Global Telecoms Business Innovation Summit<\/a>, which took place on Tuesday this week at the <strong>Sheraton Park Lane Hotel<\/strong> in central London (UK). The event was specifically geared towards asking what politicians could do to boost investment in new broadband services.<\/p>\n<p>During the event several panellists were asked for their opinion on the EC&#8217;s new guidelines, which appear to suggest that State Aid (public subsidy) should support fully fibre optic broadband networks even when a <strong>Next Generation Access<\/strong> (NGA) style service (e.g. wireless) already exists or is planned for the future. Two responses stood out more than others.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Labour MP Chi Onwurah said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>The European Commission has always had a bias in favour of fibre and I think they\u2019ve found a way of manifesting that bias legitimately. I\u2019m also concerned that lack of industrial policy and new investment may make it difficult for us to stay at the forefront<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Europe&#8217;s <strong>Digital Agenda<\/strong> strategy, which has been in place since May 2010 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/story\/2010\/05\/19\/eu-digital-agenda-tackles-superfast-broadband-and-moots-website-blocks.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>), certainly appears to support some of what Chi Onwurah is saying. The strategy seeks to ensure that, by <strong>2020<\/strong>, everybody has access to internet download speeds <strong>30Mbps+<\/strong>, with 50% or more of EU households subscribing to a 100Mbps+ service. Whether or not it is a bad thing that the EC has decided to focus on ultrafast fibre is open to debate.<\/p>\n<p>However, one of the most interesting remarks actually came from the <strong>Broadband Stakeholders Group<\/strong> (BSG), which advises the UK government on its broadband policy.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Richard Hooper, Chairman of the BSG, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>There\u2019s the assumption that superfast broadband is the issue anyway. There\u2019s little or no evidence for the benefits of superfast broadband anywhere in the world. The generations I see flowering around the world live in the mobile space so I\u2019d prefer to spend private sector money to get everyone going and one to ten megabits and spend the rest on mobile broadband<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Telecoms markets vary between countries, with many developing nations focusing on mobile because they never had a viable national fixed line infrastructure in the first place. By contrast the UK&#8217;s market has historically been more focused upon fixed solutions where there is now more maturity, though mobile does look set to become more dominant in the future.<\/p>\n<p>As to the question of whether superfast broadband is actually needed? That depends on your time-frame, definition of superfast and expectations of future access needs. An October 2010 report commissioned by the BSG concluded that &#8220;<em>there is no pressing need to implement technologies<\/em>&#8221; that can deliver more than <strong>20Mbps<\/strong> (peak) before 2016 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/story\/2010\/10\/29\/bsg-claims-satellite-and-wireless-are-viable-nga-uk-rural-broadband-solutions.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The present day problem is that getting speeds of even 10Mbps to everybody would still <strong>require new infrastructure<\/strong> because the existing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/adsl\">ADSL<\/a> \/ ADSL2+ technologies, which continue to dominate, can&#8217;t keep up. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a> recently found that the average speed for a 20-24Mbps ADSL2+ connection was <strong>7Mbps<\/strong>. Meanwhile demand and the quality of online content, especially for IPTV and video services, continue to rise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The local MP for Newcastle Central and Labour&#8217;s shadow minister for innovation and digital infrastructure, Chi Onwurah, has criticised the European Commission (EC) for having a &#8220;bias in favour of fibre&#8221; and switching its EU state aid rules (here) to focus more on &#8220;ultra-fast&#8221; (100Mbps+) fibre optic FTTH style broadband networks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[471,37,85,38],"class_list":["post-1060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-bduk","tag-digital-agenda","tag-europe","tag-politics"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - 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