{"id":12881,"date":"2016-11-11T12:19:23","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T12:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=12881"},"modified":"2016-11-11T12:38:40","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T12:38:40","slug":"essex-uk-targets-least-97-superfast-broadband-coverage-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/11\/essex-uk-targets-least-97-superfast-broadband-coverage-2020.html","title":{"rendered":"Essex UK Targets &#8220;at least&#8221; 97% Superfast Broadband Coverage by 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.superfastessex.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Superfast Essex<\/a> project in England, which is working with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/openreach\" target=\"_blank\">Openreach<\/a> (<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\/gigaclear\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Gigaclear<\/a> to roll-out &#8220;<em>superfast broadband<\/em>&#8221; (30Mbps+) networks to 95% of the county by 2019, yesterday put out a new tender for their future Phase 3 roll-out that will aim to push coverage to 97% by 2020.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>At present <strong>Phase 1<\/strong> has already expanded the reach of &#8220;<em>superfast fibre broadband<\/em>&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttc\">FTTC<\/a> and some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a>) to 65,000 additional homes and businesses within <strong>Essex<\/strong>, while <strong>Phase 2a + 2b<\/strong> are already underway and aim to extend that coverage to a total of <strong>120,000 premises<\/strong> (i.e. the 95% target for mid-2019).<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Phase 3 is set to be supported by <strong>\u00a33m<\/strong> of &#8220;<em>savings<\/em>&#8221; from Phases 1 and 2, as well as <strong>\u00a32.2m<\/strong> from Tendring District Council and <strong>\u00a32.2m<\/strong> from the Government&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/bduk\" target=\"_blank\">Broadband Delivery UK<\/a> programme.<\/p>\n<p>On top of that we also know that <strong>\u00a31.9m<\/strong> will be returned via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a>&#8217;s Phase 1 + 2 clawback due to high take-up of the service, plus the council has authorised the drawdown of <strong>\u00a3195,000<\/strong> revenue from the transformation reserve for Superfast Essex Phase 3 (this will be used to drive demand and take-up). Overall about <strong>24,000 extra premises<\/strong> should benefit from the third phase.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.superfastessex.org\/en-us\/whatshappeningnext.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Superfast Essex Update<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Superfast Essex has now invited broadband network operators across the UK to bid for the Phase 3 work across Essex.<\/p>\n<p>The tender for the new rollout was launched on Thursday 10 November and the requirement has been split into four separate zones, known as \u2018Lots\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Across the four Lots, an estimated 24,000 premises are eligible for inclusion in the Phase 3 rollout. The actual number of properties to be included will be determined during the procurement process. The lots are split as follows:<\/p>\n<p>* Uttlesford District \u2013 5,500 premises. One of the most rural districts in the county with significantly poor connectivity.<\/p>\n<p>* Central North \u2013 4,500 premises. This includes parts of Braintree, Colchester and Chelmsford districts.<\/p>\n<p>* Tendring District \u2013 5,500 premises. To help Tendring District reach 100% superfast broadband coverage.<\/p>\n<p>* South East \u2013 8,500 premises. This includes rural areas along the coastline of Maldon and Rochford districts and parts of Castle Point and Basildon districts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to data from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkbroadband.com\/news\/7556-essex-to-invest-10m-taking-superfast-past-95-mark.html\" target=\"_blank\">Thinkbroadband<\/a>, some 87.5% of Essex can already order a superfast broadband connection and so there&#8217;s clearly still a long way left to go; hence the abnormally late completion dates for Phases 2 and 3. Apparently the total contract length for Phase 3 is ten years, which we assume reflects future maintenance as well as the roll-out.<\/p>\n<p>As a side note we see that the council are seeking to &#8220;<em>drive service take-up to reach 50%<\/em>,&#8221; which could be good news for clawback if it can be achieved. So far all of this appears to be in keeping with BDUK&#8217;s expectation of 97-98% coverage for the UK by the end of 2019 or thereabouts.<\/p>\n<p>Mind you the 97% target for Essex must be considered an aspirational one until the suppliers have been chosen, which can sometimes result in an adjustment to the expectation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Superfast Essex project in England, which is working with Openreach (BT) and Gigaclear to roll-out &#8220;superfast broadband&#8221; (30Mbps+) networks to 95% of the county by 2019, yesterday put out a new tender for their future Phase 3 roll-out that will aim to push coverage to 97% by 2020.<\/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":[474,471,456,55,56,416,69],"class_list":["post-12881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-bt","tag-bduk","tag-essex","tag-fttc","tag-fttp","tag-gigaclear","tag-bt-openreach"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Essex UK Targets &quot;at least&quot; 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