{"id":11513,"date":"2016-04-14T10:10:44","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T09:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=11513"},"modified":"2016-04-14T10:10:44","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T09:10:44","slug":"digital-minister-moots-gigabit-britain-expects-10mbps-uso-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/04\/digital-minister-moots-gigabit-britain-expects-10mbps-uso-2018.html","title":{"rendered":"Ed Vaizey MP Moots &#8220;Gigabit Britain&#8221; for 2025 and 10Mbps USO by 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Government&#8217;s Digital Economy Minister, Ed Vaizey, has told a select committee inquiry into digital connectivity that he would expect to start seeing &#8220;<em>gigabit<\/em>&#8221; (1000Mbps+) speed broadband from 2020-25 and that the 10Mbps Universal Service Obligation (USO) should be &#8220;<em>coming on stream<\/em>&#8221; towards the end of 2017 or 2018.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>At present it&#8217;s widely expected that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a>&#8217;s commercial <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/gfast\">G.fast<\/a> roll-out, which will commence from next summer 2017, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Media<\/a>&#8217;s on-going cable network expansion should bring broadband speeds of around 300Mbps to most of the UK (around 60-70%) without recourse to public funding by 2020\/25.<\/p>\n<p>But Ed Vaizey also spoke a lot about reaching Gigabit speeds after <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 completed the above commercial investment, which could perhaps replicate the existing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/bduk\" target=\"_blank\">Broadband Delivery UK<\/a> programme in order to push that out to nearly universal coverage.<\/p>\n<p>However <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/gfast\">G.fast<\/a> would struggle to deliver Gigabit speeds unless the node exists right outside your home, although <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a> has also talked about ramping up their Gigabit capable <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a> roll-out. Similarly we expect that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Media<\/a>\u2019s future DOCSIS3.1 upgrade could deliver Gigabit speeds.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Ed Vaizey, Digital Economy Minister, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve started talking about a Gigabit Britain, which I wouldn&#8217;t necessarily see as ending in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>But I think the next phase we want to see is the kind of speeds that people are going to expect over the next decade. 100-300Mbps is kind of what people talk about, but I think Gigabit Britain trips off the tongue more easily than a 100 meg to 300 meg Britain.<\/p>\n<p>I fully expect to get to a specific tipping point at the end of this decade in terms of those kinds of speeds being seen by the majority of people. But I think that we as a Government need to think very hard about what we do to achieve the same kind of near universal roll-out that we have achieved with superfast broadband. But I would give it a time-scale up to sort of 2025.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After that Vaizey took time out to praise the BDUK and BT deployment of superfast broadband (24Mbps+) connectivity and confirmed that the <strong>clawback<\/strong> (<em>gain share<\/em>) mechanism in related contracts requires BTOpenreach to return part of the investment when take-up of the new service passes beyond the 20% mark. So far \u00a3129m has been confirmed for reinvestment to help boost coverage and Vaizey said, &#8220;<em>we&#8217;re on course to clawback <strong>\u00a3250m<\/strong>, maybe more. I think it&#8217;s been a very cost effective programme<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The minister also separately suggested that <strong>Devon<\/strong> and <strong>Somerset<\/strong> should have signed a deal to expand local &#8220;<em>fibre broadband<\/em>&#8221; coverage with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/openreach\" target=\"_blank\">Openreach<\/a> last year, which in the end didn&#8217;t happen because the contract negotiations broke down over issues of cost and time-scale (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/06\/bts-uk-superfast-broadband-rollout-deal-for-devon-and-somerset-collapses.html\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Ed Vaizey said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve had fun and games with Devon and Somerset. I would much rather they&#8217;d gone on and signed phase 2 with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/openreach\" target=\"_blank\">Openreach<\/a>, but they got themselves worked up about delivery and you will find that there have been occasional incidences where there has been a breakdown in communications. So I think that&#8217;s unfortunate, but at the end of the day although we work in partnership with local authorities we&#8217;re not going to mandate to them who they should contract with.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Finally, a lot of early discussion was focused upon debating the future 10Mbps <strong>Universal Service Obligation<\/strong> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/11\/government-unveil-10mbps-broadband-universal-service-obligation.html\">here<\/a>), which saw Vaizey warn that he couldn&#8217;t &#8220;<em>guarantee<\/em>&#8221; that every single premise is going to get 10 Megabits per second or more &#8220;<em>but it should be potentially possible<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At present there are several related USO consultations running (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/03\/uk-government-begins-consultation-10mbps-broadband-uso.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/04\/ofcom-consults-proposed-10mbps-broadband-uso.html\">here<\/a>) and Vaizey confirmed that he intends to legislate for it as part of a future <strong>Digital Economy Bill<\/strong> (not to confused with the infamous 2010 legislation), which he &#8220;<em>hopes<\/em>&#8221; to publish in June or July 2016. The good news is that it could then be ready for introduction far sooner than the aforementioned 2020 date, with the minister suggesting a date &#8220;<em>towards the end of 2017 or 2018<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In terms of funding, Vaizey noted that they were considering either an industry led approach, support from the public purse or a combination of both. Much like the current USO for telephone lines, &#8220;<em>there would be a potential cap on the amount of public funding if a particular connection will cost many thousands of pounds<\/em>&#8221; (the current telephony USO sets a cost threshold of \u00a33,400).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also generally expected that any public funding would focus on helping those in the final 5% of the UK to achieve the USO, although all of this remains very much subject to the on-going consultations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government&#8217;s Digital Economy Minister, Ed Vaizey, has told a select committee inquiry into digital connectivity that he would expect to start seeing &#8220;gigabit&#8221; (1000Mbps+) speed broadband from 2020-25 and that the 10Mbps Universal Service Obligation (USO) should be &#8220;coming on stream&#8221; towards the end of 2017 or 2018.<\/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":[474,471,36,69,38],"class_list":["post-11513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-bt","tag-bduk","tag-ofcom-regulation","tag-bt-openreach","tag-politics"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ed Vaizey MP Moots &quot;Gigabit Britain&quot; 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