{"id":11345,"date":"2016-03-15T16:02:39","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T16:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=11345"},"modified":"2016-03-15T16:02:39","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T16:02:39","slug":"scotland-uk-reaches-85-percent-fibre-broadband-coverage-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/03\/scotland-uk-reaches-85-percent-fibre-broadband-coverage-goal.html","title":{"rendered":"Scotland UK Reaches 85 Percent Fibre Broadband Coverage Goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The \u00a3410 million <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalscotland.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Digital Scotland Superfast Broadband<\/a> project has today announced the achievement of their first contract target, which means that 85% of homes and businesses in the country can now access a faster &#8220;<em>fibre broadband<\/em>&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttc\">FTTC<\/a>\/P) connection.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Overall around<strong> 550,000 additional premises<\/strong> (this is on top of the existing commercial roll-out from operators like <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>) have benefited from the project and the goal is now to extend this coverage to 95% by the end of March 2018 (reaching a total of 750,000 premises by completion).<\/p>\n<p>However we should add that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hie.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Highland and Islands<\/a> (HIE) region is still only expected to reach 85% coverage by the end of 2016, although yesterday&#8217;s news does suggest that a future contract could help to push this to 90% if it can be agreed (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/03\/scotlands-highlands-council-moves-tackle-broadband-notspots.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>Digital Scotland\u2019s Phase 1 Contract Funding<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Highlands and Islands (\u00a3145.8m):<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022 \u00a3126.4m from public bodies (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/scotgov\" target=\"_blank\">Scottish Government<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/bduk\" target=\"_blank\">Broadband Delivery UK<\/a> [\u00a350.83m], Highland and Islands Enterprise and all seven local authorities in the project area)<br \/>\n\u2022 \u00a319.4m from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Rest of Scotland (\u00a3264m):<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022 \u00a3157m from public sources (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/scotgov\" target=\"_blank\">Scottish Government<\/a>, ERDF, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/bduk\" target=\"_blank\">Broadband Delivery UK<\/a> [\u00a350m], and all 27 local authorities that form part of the Rest of Scotland Project area)<br \/>\n\u2022 \u00a3106.7m from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One slight quibble is the typically unclear language of BT&#8217;s press release, which does NOT specifically state that the 85% figure is reflective of &#8220;<em>superfast<\/em>&#8221; (24Mbps+ or 30Mbps+) speeds. However we know from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a>&#8217;s data, which seems to be supported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/thinkbroadband\" target=\"_blank\">Thinkbroadband<\/a>&#8217;s checking, that very nearly 85% can access 24Mbps+ speeds (around 84%). However estimates are always difficult things to verify and the real-world is usually much more variable.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise we&#8217;re told that the project has so far built <strong>2,480 new street cabinets<\/strong> across Scotland, most of which will be carrying BTOpenreach&#8217;s &#8216;up to&#8217; 80Mbps <strong>Fibre-to-the-Cabinet<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttc\">FTTC<\/a>) service. Not to mention the construction of a new backhaul network comprising 800km of a land-based fibre optic cable and 400km of subsea fibre laid via 20 subsea cable routes.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Andy Hepburn, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/openreach\" target=\"_blank\">Openreach<\/a> Director for NGA in Scotland, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Halfway through the Digital Scotland rollout we\u2019re on budget and ahead of schedule. Hundreds of thousands of Scottish premises can connect to our high-speed broadband network today, including around 164,000 in Edinburgh.<\/p>\n<p>The DSSB programme is one of the largest current infrastructure projects in the whole of Europe and the planning task alone is formidable. We\u2019re building a robust, secure national network which will meet Scotland\u2019s high-speed digital demands well into the future.<\/p>\n<p>We aim to reach as many people as possible with the funds available and every week services arrive in more rural and remote communities, as well as those in urban areas where commercial upgrades weren\u2019t an option. With two years to go, there\u2019s much still to do and we\u2019re ready for the challenges ahead.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Going forward Scotland&#8217;s SNP government have this week pledged to support the central UK Government&#8217;s push for a new legally-binding 10Mbps <strong>Universal Service Obligation<\/strong> (USO), but at the same time they&#8217;ve (<strong>Nicola Sturgeon<\/strong>) also called for &#8220;<em>superfast digital broadband<\/em>&#8221; to reach &#8220;<em>100% of premises across Scotland<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As usual the details about how the 100% target will be funded and delivered remain somewhat elusive and that may be because nobody is yet sure quite how to do it (i.e. tackle the final 5%, which comprises some notoriously sparse communities and rugged \/ mountainous terrain).<\/p>\n<p>Any future contracts will also depend upon the shape of BDUK\u2019s forthcoming EU state aid agreement, which is still being debated. This could require more input from alternative network providers as opposed to reliance upon BT, which may be reluctant to throw its own money at such difficult areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u00a3410 million Digital Scotland Superfast Broadband project has today announced the achievement of their first contract target, which means that 85% of homes and businesses in the country can now access a faster &#8220;fibre broadband&#8221; (FTTC\/P) connection.<\/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":[474,471,55,56,69,89],"class_list":["post-11345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-bt","tag-bduk","tag-fttc","tag-fttp","tag-bt-openreach","tag-scotland"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - 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