{"id":13893,"date":"2017-05-11T09:12:32","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T08:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=13893"},"modified":"2017-05-16T12:37:49","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T11:37:49","slug":"uk-labour-party-pledges-30mbps-superfast-broadband-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/05\/uk-labour-party-pledges-30mbps-superfast-broadband-2022.html","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE Labour Party Pledges 30Mbps Superfast Broadband for All by 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A confirmed leak of the Labour Party&#8217;s draft 2017 General Election Manifesto has revealed that Jeremy Corbyn will promise to deliver &#8220;<em>universal superfast broadband availability<\/em>&#8221; across the United Kingdom by 2022, which they&#8217;ve defined as offering a minimum speed of 30Mbps.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Readers with a good memory will recall that the party&#8217;s 2015 manifesto was distinctly less specific about time-scale and service speed, although it did make a broadly similarly pledge to ensure that &#8220;<em>all parts of the country benefit from affordable, high speed broadband by the end of the Parliament<\/em>.&#8221; By comparison Jeremy Corbyn&#8217;s commitment feels a bit more fleshed out and the time-scale seems viable.<\/p>\n<p>However the party is a little less specific when it comes to explaining how they intend to &#8220;<em>improve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/4g\">4G<\/a> coverage<\/em>&#8221; (Mobile). Similarly their commitment to &#8220;<em>invest to ensure all urban areas as well as major roads and railways have uninterrupted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/5g\">5G<\/a> coverage<\/em>&#8221; sounds a lot like what the private sector should be able to deliver on its own (there&#8217;s no mention of rural coverage).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>The UK Labour Party&#8217;s 2017 Broadband Pledge<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Labour&#8217;s infrastructure investment and mission-led industrial strategy will make Britain a better place to do business, and give businesses the confidence to invest in Britain. We will also encourage private investment by removing new plant and machinery from business rate calculations.<\/p>\n<p>We will deliver universal superfast broadband availability by 2022. Few things are more crucial to businesses and our economy than a fast and reliable internet connection, but 3 million households and businesses have been left incapacitated by slow internet. We will deliver a universal superfast 30mbps service availability to all households by 2022. The Conservative commitment to just 10mbps will see the 400,000 small businesses and nearly two million homes left with substandard broadband well into the next decade.<\/p>\n<p>In December, the National Infrastructure Commission ranked the UK 54th in the world for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/4g\">4G<\/a> coverage and said the average user could get a signal &#8220;<em>barely half the time<\/em>&#8220;. That isn&#8217;t just frustrating, it is increasingly holding British business back as more and more of our economy requires a connected workforce.<\/p>\n<p>Labour will improve mobile internet coverage and expand provision of free public wi-fi in city centres and on public transport. We will improve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/4g\">4G<\/a> coverage and will invest to ensure all urban areas as well as major roads and railways have uninterrupted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/5g\">5G<\/a> coverage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One notable absence above is Corbyn&#8217;s previous talk about his aspiration to foster a &#8220;<em>nationwide<\/em>&#8221; <strong>Fibre-to-the-Premise<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a>\/H) broadband network (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/08\/jeremy-corbyn-pledges-25bn-national-uk-fttp-broadband-mobile.html\">here<\/a>), which would have been funded by <strong>\u00a325bn<\/strong> from a new <strong>National Investment Bank<\/strong> (NIB).<\/p>\n<p>The NIB idea, which would be &#8220;<em>financed with an injection of initial public capital which will be leveraged using additional private sector finance to give \u00a3250bn of lending power over the next decade<\/em>,&#8221; is however still present and would no doubt be used to fuel their 30Mbps policy instead.<\/p>\n<p>As you&#8217;d expect from any political party&#8217;s Manifesto, there&#8217;s not much in the way of detail concerning precise funding (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a> estimated up to \u00a32bn for universal 30Mbps), technology choice and or what market adjustments may be needed in order to foster the new target. Likewise it&#8217;s unclear whether they&#8217;ve included upload speeds or are only focused on download performance.<\/p>\n<p>However the target itself is viable, particularly since the current Conservative Government&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/bduk\" target=\"_blank\">Broadband Delivery UK<\/a> programme already anticipates that 24-30Mbps+ capable fixed line broadband should cover around 97% of premises by 2020. The key difference being that Labour is talking about a legally-binding USO rather than a virtual commitment.<\/p>\n<p>One risk from a 30Mbps USO might be that handing the delivery to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a>, if that was to happen, could damage the growth of alternative network providers (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a> has been trying hard to foster altnets and competition at infrastructure level via their Strategic Review). We say <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a> because earlier consultations have also suggested that none of the other ISPs were terribly interested in taking on the costly legal burden of a USO.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise we&#8217;re not interested in the wider politics of this election and our focus is thus purely on what the different parties are going to offer for broadband. More Manifesto launches are on the way and we&#8217;ll be covering those too, although we&#8217;d be surprised to see anything new from the Conservatives beyond what they&#8217;ve already announced before Easter (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/03\/uk-budget-2017-5g-200m-full-fibre-broadband-menu.html\">Budget 2017 Summary<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>As usual, always take any political pledges from any party with a big pinch of salt.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE 16th May 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The final manifesto has now been published and it includes an aspirational suggestion of universal 300Mbps broadband coverage (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/05\/final-uk-labour-party-manifesto-hints-300mbps-broadband.html\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A confirmed leak of the Labour Party&#8217;s draft 2017 General Election Manifesto has revealed that Jeremy Corbyn will promise to deliver &#8220;universal superfast broadband availability&#8221; across the United Kingdom by 2022, which they&#8217;ve defined as offering a minimum speed of 30Mbps.<\/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":[471,38],"class_list":["post-13893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-bduk","tag-politics"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - 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