{"id":13993,"date":"2017-05-30T14:32:34","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T13:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=13993"},"modified":"2017-05-30T14:35:13","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T13:35:13","slug":"liberty-globals-virgin-media-broadband-delivers-1-4bn-boost-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/05\/liberty-globals-virgin-media-broadband-delivers-1-4bn-boost-uk.html","title":{"rendered":"Liberty Global&#8217;s (Virgin Media) Broadband Delivers \u00a31.4bn Boost to UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cable operator Liberty Global, which owns <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Media<\/a>, has claimed that the &#8220;<em>economic effects<\/em>&#8221; of their investments in the UK (i.e. higher broadband speeds, improved productivity and price competition) between 2013 and 2017 have delivered a &#8220;<em>total social benefit<\/em>&#8221; worth \u00a31.38bn.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The analysis flows from a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxera.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oxera Consulting<\/a> report, which has been studying the economic impact of Liberty Global&#8217;s investment in new broadband infrastructure. Overall the operator claims to have invested \u00a311.6bn (total capital expenditure &#8211; adjusted for inflation) across all of its European operations in new and existing infrastructure, customer premises equipment, business support and other key services.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Mike Fries, Liberty Global CEO, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our significant investment clearly has a positive impact for consumers and businesses across Europe, and we are proud that it simultaneously generates billions for the economy, while creating clear social benefits through improved speed, productivity and competition.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One of those key investments has of course been the operator&#8217;s \u00a33bn <strong>Project Lightning<\/strong> network expansion, which aims to cover a total of 17 million UK premises by 2019 (i.e. 4 million extra [2 million via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a>]) &#8211; boosting their coverage of the United Kingdom to around 60-65%. Mind you there have recently been a few stumbling blocks with the roll-out progress (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/05\/virgin-media-uk-end-difficult-quarter-5-million-broadband-users.html\">here<\/a>), albeit not enough to upset Oxera&#8217;s study.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise the report estimates that the economic benefits to society across Europe total more than \u20ac7 billion since the start of 2013, including <strong>\u20ac5 billion<\/strong> in speed benefits to customers through access to a greater range and quality of internet services, plus <strong>\u20ac1.5 billion<\/strong> in productivity benefits through increased output of small businesses and home workers due to better connectivity, and finally <strong>\u20ac536 million<\/strong> in price benefits and competition.<\/p>\n<p>Liberty Global claims that their investments often introduce network competition to an area for the first time, which is certainly true for a lot of UK homes where otherwise <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>] might be the sole supplier. However <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/openreach\" target=\"_blank\">Openreach<\/a>&#8217;s network is open access and <strong>Local Loop Unbundling<\/strong> (LLU) does somewhat complicate this argument. Suffice to say that gauging the economic benefit of faster broadband remains a ferociously difficult task and such figures are often open to interpretation.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from Project Lighting we also expect Liberty Global to begin the roll-out of Gigabit capable <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/docsis\">DOCSIS<\/a> 3.1<\/strong> technology towards the end of 2017 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/11\/virgin-medias-parent-commits-gigabit-speed-broadband-2018.html\">here<\/a>) and a lot of the necessary infrastructure is already being installed in order to support that.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/gallery\/2017-uk-internet-statistics\/virgin_media_economic_boost.jpg\" alt=\"virgin media uk economic boost\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cable operator Liberty Global, which owns Virgin Media, has claimed that the &#8220;economic effects&#8221; of their investments in the UK (i.e. higher broadband speeds, improved productivity and price competition) between 2013 and 2017 have delivered a &#8220;total social benefit&#8221; worth \u00a31.38bn.<\/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":[419,85,34,475],"class_list":["post-13993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-docsis3-1","tag-europe","tag-statistics","tag-virgin-media"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - 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