{"id":11114,"date":"2016-02-20T01:01:52","date_gmt":"2016-02-20T01:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=11114"},"modified":"2016-02-20T08:37:18","modified_gmt":"2016-02-20T08:37:18","slug":"lancashire-villages-accuse-bt-of-overbuilding-their-community-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/02\/lancashire-villages-accuse-bt-of-overbuilding-their-community-network.html","title":{"rendered":"Lancashire Villages Accuse BT of Overbuilding their Community Network"},"content":{"rendered":"

Residents of three villages in rural Lancashire (England) – Inglewhite, Whitechapel and Bleasdale – have accused BT<\/a> and the council of wasting public money after the community built its own B4RN<\/a> 1000Mbps FTTH<\/a> broadband network only for BT<\/a> to suddenly turn up and overbuild it with 40-80Mbps FTTC<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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As a county Lancashire has perhaps suffered more complaints about Openreach<\/a> (BT<\/a>) overbuilding other networks than most, not least because the area is home to the popular B4RN<\/a> project that has had to battle tooth and nail in order to fight against the local authority’s perceived intransigence towards their otherwise successful community-built and funded FTTH<\/a> network (the Dolphinholme example<\/a>).<\/p>\n

However the story in this case is perhaps complicated by a long running dispute over existing network coverage and service availability. The situation began in 2010 when, according to local residents, much of the area was classed by BT and local authority (SFL – Superfast Lancashire<\/a>) as having been “Superfast Enabled<\/em>“, yet many locals complained that they could not in fact receive the service. We attempted to contact SFL two weeks ago to clarify their plans for the area, but received no response.<\/p>\n

Indeed some locals complained that they were still stuck on dial-up, while others struggled to get an ADSL<\/a> speed of 2Mbps and a few suffer from generally unstable telephone lines. A lack of good 2G or 3G<\/a> mobile reception (4G<\/a> is almost non-existent) is another complaint and a quick look at the map shows why, with the area being very rural and sparse in its geography. A lot of homes also exist well outside of the village centres.<\/p>\n

Some premises can apparently get BT’s FTTC<\/a> (VDSL) “fibre broadband<\/em>” service, albeit mostly those who reside really close to a street cabinet at Goosnargh or Bilsborrow. A couple of Fixed wireless ISPs (Boundless and Sonning IT Services) have also been providing a 10Mbps fix to locals, but that is quite expensive and also not “superfast<\/em>” (24Mbps+<\/strong>).<\/p>\n

Part of the problem might be blamed upon the combination of long copper or aluminium lines, with many joints, multiplexers and poor home wiring also meaning that what is estimated by ISPs (speeds) often ends up being too optimistic or simply wrong.<\/p>\n

The Alternative Challenge<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Residents soon grew tired of the problem and in 2011\/12 they began working with B4RN<\/a> to setup a community funded and built solution, which would eventually become known as Gigabit Broadband CIC<\/a> (GBCIC). The aim was to harness B4RN’s experience and then follow their model by deploying a 1000Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Home<\/strong> (FTTH<\/a>\/P) network to all who wanted it.<\/p>\n

According to GBCIC, Lancashire County Council (LCC) was informed of “what we were doing in 2014 and had meetings with their senior people<\/em>.” At that point the project was again told that FTTC<\/a> from BT was “already enabled … but for those few that are not – they\u2019ll be in the last 2% and may get satellite<\/a><\/em>“. Locals inform us that the same response continued to be echoed all the way up until Nov\/Dec 2015.<\/p>\n

ISPreview.co.uk notes that LCC launched a new Open Market Review<\/strong> (OMR) in June 2014 (here<\/a>), which lasted several short weeks and is the mechanism that local authorities use in order to establish which areas are still being left neglected through a lack of superfast broadband.<\/p>\n

However OMRs are not perfect (a somewhat bureaucratic approach with limited flexibility to adapt to rapid changes) and at the time the local community had not yet established a formal structure for GBCIC, which meant they couldn’t submit to it and thus weren\u2019t factored into SFL\u2019s post-2014 coverage plan.<\/p>\n

Never the less GBCIC was officially formed one year later in July 2015 and at that time they held another meeting to inform the local authority of their plans, at which point they were once again told that the area was already “superfast enabled<\/em>” and would not be receiving further help.<\/p>\n

Shortly after that GBCIC and B4RN began building the new network and the first customers went live in January 2016; the official announcement about this was made on 19th, although unofficially it occurred on 6th Jan. The project cost \u00a330,000<\/strong> to start and another \u00a315,000<\/strong> may be needed to deliver what has been promised.<\/p>\n

GBCIC Statement<\/strong><\/p>\n

“On Tuesday 19th January 2016, the first two customers were connected to the B4RN fibre broadband service. Gigabit is helping local people to organise and are now bringing B4RN connectivity to Inglewhite, Whitechapel, Beacon Fell and Bleasdale.. JFDI.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What happened next came as a surprise to all involved. Within a few short days of the announcement lots of vans (one resident claims to have counted around 20 within a 3 mile radius), all belonging to BTOpenreach’s contractors, suddenly flooded into the area.<\/p>\n

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Before long new telegraph poles, with fibre optic infrastructure attached, were going up and associated street works began causing temporary disruption on local roads. Similarly BT leafleted local villages during the end of January.<\/p>\n

On top of that several new banners for the “Superfast Lancashire<\/em>” project have been erected on nearby roads, with GBCIC’s David Ford<\/strong> alleging that two of B4RN’s notices were also “torn down<\/em>” and one replaced with an SFL banner.<\/p>\n

Since then the activity has calmed down, although you can still spot the odd Openreach<\/a> engineering team working in the area. So far most of the work appears to be focused upon connecting just the village centres, with those in the sparse outlying areas seeing little activity. By comparison GBCIC hopes to connect everybody who wants the service.<\/p>\n

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\n(One of the new poles that Openreach<\/a> just built)<\/div>\n

A quick check of the Superfast Openreach<\/a> website confirms that the area is currently being surveyed as part of a “fibre broadband<\/em>” deployment. Digging deeper and we note that some of the local cabinets are marked as being set to go live with FTTC by October 2016<\/strong>. Some locals have separately indicated that certain areas might also be getting 330Mbps FTTP<\/a>, although this hasn\u2019t been confirmed.<\/p>\n

Edward Hibbert, Resident of Loud Bridge and GBCIC Volunteer, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Broadband or lack of, in rural areas is more than a frustration – it’s damaging to people’s lives and livelihoods. B4RN and their organisers in this area Gigabit are showing brilliantly what can be achieved if people put their minds and spades to it, and BT’s response is to try to quickly kill it off by suddenly becoming very active in long neglected areas.<\/p>\n

This is especially crazy when what BT will finally offer is a much worse service in every respect. Councils should be supporting schemes like B4RN – not subsidising a monopoly to undermine them, especially when I understand that our council knew exactly what we were doing.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

GBCIC’s David Ford<\/strong> also claims to have quizzed one of the contractors (MJ Quinn) and they informed him that the work had followed an “urgent request from BT<\/em>” and that they were allegedly under pressure to get the fibre laid before the end of February 2016<\/strong> (the final bits of infrastructure will probably be built later this year).<\/p>\n

Furthermore the contractor is alleged to have said that the “area wasn\u2019t being planned for previously but that they\u2019d suddenly got the orders to run three long routes of fibre into the area from Longridge, Broughton and Bilsborrow.<\/em>”<\/p>\n

At this point it’s hard to see the situation as merely a coincidence, especially as it comes after years of precious little movement or acknowledgement of the problem from the local authority.. until B4RN turned up. Mind you it should be said that speaking to engineers directly, especially third-party contractors, does not always yield the most accurate of information.<\/p>\n

Naturally we also attempted to quiz Openreach about their activity in the area, although their response is more a general statement of circumstance than a specific reply to the above concerns.<\/p>\n

An Openreach Spokesperson told ISPreview.co.uk:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Openreach has been working closely with Lancashire County Council on the Broadband Delivery UK<\/a> (BDUK) programme.<\/p>\n

We started our BDUK roll-out in Lancashire in 2012 and we\u2019re pleased that we recently agreed the next phase of deployment with the council to take fibre coverage even further.<\/p>\n

We operate in an open and competitive market, and all providers have the opportunity to outline their plans to the council before any decisions on state aid are made.<\/p>\n

We will only cover homes as outlined in the \u2018intervention\u2019 area provided to us by the council, and we welcome any investment that brings homes and businesses a greater choice of providers.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Openreach did however note that the relevant areas were not among those where they are excluded from building and there is a possibility that some postcodes may indeed be covered by more than one network, not least because small villages do not always have a dedicated telephone exchange (this can make it difficult to precisely separate coverage by operator \/ network).<\/p>\n

Meanwhile GBCIC and many in the local area still perceive Openreach’s deployment to be little more than a waste of money, which with a bit of common sense could so easily have been better spent on extending coverage into areas that won’t benefit from an alternative network platform. The latter approach may also be the best way for BT to defend against B4RN’s advance.<\/p>\n

Not that any of this is impacting GBCIC’s deployment and if anything local support appears to be strengthening. “Most here see the sudden action by BT as being somewhat heavy handed and inappropriate and can\u2019t wait to get connected so they can stop using their BT lines altogether<\/em>,” said GBCIC’s David Ford.<\/p>\n

On the other hand the situation does mean that many residents could soon have access to a choice of two new next generation broadband networks, which is something that normally doesn’t exist for most rural communities and that’s a positive thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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