{"id":10954,"date":"2016-01-22T00:01:25","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T00:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=10954"},"modified":"2016-01-22T10:32:27","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T10:32:27","slug":"cambridgeshire-and-peterborough-finish-phase-1-broadband-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/01\/cambridgeshire-and-peterborough-finish-phase-1-broadband-contract.html","title":{"rendered":"Cambridgeshire and Peterborough UK Finish Phase 1 Broadband Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The \u00a329.75m <a href=\"http:\/\/www.connectingcambridgeshire.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Connecting Cambridgeshire<\/a> project in England, which aimed to make <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a>&#8217;s superfast broadband (24Mbps+) network available to 90% of premises in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough by the end of 2015 (98% for the raw &#8220;<em>fibre broadband<\/em>&#8221; footprint), has today officially completed its target.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The completion of the Phase One <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/bduk\" target=\"_blank\">Broadband Delivery UK<\/a> contract means that an additional <strong>97,000+<\/strong> local homes and businesses have been put within reach of the service, some of which might never have happened without the extra public investment.<\/p>\n<p>Overall this means that roughly 300,000 premises (when including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Media<\/a>&#8217;s separate commercial coverage) in the region can now get access to the faster connectivity. The eagle-eyed among you will no doubt notice that today&#8217;s target was hit ever so slightly later than planned, although a few extra weeks is hardly anything to moan about.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere take-up of the new &#8220;<em>fibre broadband<\/em>&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttc\">FTTC<\/a>\/P) service is said to be &#8220;<em>among the highest in the country<\/em>&#8221; at nearly 30%, which spells good news for <strong>clawback<\/strong> linked reinvestment (see further below).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Ed Vaizey, Digital Minister, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>The Government&#8217;s rollout of superfast broadband is making tremendous progress, and with one of the highest take-up rates in the UK, Cambridgeshire is a leading digital county. We&#8217;ve already reached an additional 3.5 million UK homes and businesses, almost 100,000 in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough alone, and the Connecting Cambridgeshire project will reach another 6000 premises in the next phase of our plan<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Ian Bates, County Councillor, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>We have come a long way since the County Council took the bold decision to invest in superfast broadband along with Peterborough City Council and awarded the contract to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a> in March 2012. We live in a digital world and it\u2019s vital that our businesses and communities have the connections they need to compete and thrive.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We\u2019re already a leading digital county with some of the biggest technology clusters in the country in Cambridge and Peterborough and we want to continue to be at the forefront of innovation to underpin growth and jobs<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The good news is that a <strong>Superfast Extension Programme<\/strong> (SEP) contract, which is backed by <strong>\u00a31.5m<\/strong> extra from the Government, was signed last year to help push the connectivity out into more areas (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/04\/cambridgeshire-and-peterborough-sign-extended-fibre-broadband-contract.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>). On top of that BT has also confirmed that\u00a0another <strong>\u00a35.3m<\/strong> will be returned through clawback to be reinvested in enhanced coverage (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/08\/cambridgeshire-and-peterborough-confirm-gbp5-3m-broadband-boost.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The contract extension should cover another <strong>6,000<\/strong> homes and businesses in further roll-out phases from <strong>Spring 2016<\/strong>. Combined with the private sector\u2019s commercial roll-out this means that over 93% of households and businesses across the county can already get &#8220;<em>fibre broadband<\/em>&#8221; and the &#8220;<em>programme is on track to reach at least 95%<\/em>&#8221; by the <strong>end of 2017<\/strong> (we believe they mean &#8220;<em>superfast<\/em>&#8221; speeds for this).<\/p>\n<p>The press release also states that the next two years will see the programme &#8220;<em>reaching some of the most challenging rural areas of the county<\/em>&#8220;, albeit with other technologies, such as wireless and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/satellite\">Satellite<\/a>, being used for the remainder by 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u00a329.75m Connecting Cambridgeshire project in England, which aimed to make BT&#8217;s superfast broadband (24Mbps+) network available to 90% of premises in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough by the end of 2015 (98% for the raw &#8220;fibre broadband&#8221; footprint), has today officially completed its target.<\/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":[474,471,440,55,56],"class_list":["post-10954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-bt","tag-bduk","tag-cambridgeshire","tag-fttc","tag-fttp"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - 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