{"id":14076,"date":"2017-06-14T17:15:53","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T16:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=14076"},"modified":"2017-06-14T17:17:45","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T16:17:45","slug":"digital-minister-matt-hancock-recommits-full-fibre-broadband-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/06\/digital-minister-matt-hancock-recommits-full-fibre-broadband-policy.html","title":{"rendered":"Digital Minister Matt Hancock Recommits to &#8220;Full Fibre&#8221; Broadband Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Government&#8217;s returning Digital Minister, Matthew Hancock MP, has today told the Connected Britain event in London that he will recommit to the current policy of fostering &#8220;<em>full fibre<\/em>&#8221; broadband and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/5g\">5G<\/a> mobile, which is despite the fact that a deal between the Conservative Party and DUP has yet to be signed.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>At present it&#8217;s still not clear precisely what policies will survive any agreement between the Conservatives and DUP, although that didn&#8217;t stop <strong>Matthew Hancock<\/strong> from pledging to continue the previous digital policy. In fairness this is somewhat of a predictable outcome since, on the digital infrastructure front at least, neither party has any big differences.<\/p>\n<p>In other words the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/bduk\" target=\"_blank\">Broadband Delivery UK<\/a> project&#8217;s effort to make fixed line &#8220;<em>superfast broadband<\/em>&#8221; (24Mbps+) speeds available to around 97% of UK premises by 2020 will continue, as will their plan to introduce a 10Mbps <strong>Universal Service Obligation<\/strong> (USO) to help tackle those in the final 3%.<\/p>\n<p>On top of that they&#8217;ve recently committed \u00a3600m to boost &#8220;<em>full fibre<\/em>&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a>\/H) deployments and aim to support future <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/5g\">5G<\/a> mobile services. Not to mention that 100% business rates relief on new full-fibre infrastructure for a 5 year period. Essentially everything that was confirmed as part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/03\/uk-budget-2017-5g-200m-full-fibre-broadband-menu.html\">Budget 2017<\/a> (click for details) announcement remains.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Matthew Hancock MP said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The assurance I can give you with the return of a Conservative government, myself as minister of culture and Karen Bradley as secretary of state, is we have our feet firmly under the table. We are clearly committed to strengthening the UK\u2019s position as a world leading digital economy and it is cornerstone of our economic and social development. We\u2019re committed to affordable high speed connectivity to ever business and home.<\/p>\n<p>We support the goal of high levels of UK connectivity delivered by commercial investment within a framework delivered by government. We all know we need to do more and I am delighted to be back to do just that.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So what about all of those other pledges in the 2017 Conservative Manifesto? As we said at the time of its publication (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/05\/2017-conservative-party-manifesto-short-surprises-broadband.html\">here<\/a>), the Conservative manifesto largely reiterated the Government&#8217;s existing direction, although it did set a target of 2022 for achieving 95% geographic coverage of Mobile connectivity and 10 million premises &#8220;<em>connected to full fibre<\/em>&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a>\/H).<\/p>\n<p>However, the targets are largely covered by existing plans and future private investment, which makes them somewhat of a hollow pledge. 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