{"id":14082,"date":"2017-06-15T13:21:47","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T12:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=14082"},"modified":"2017-06-15T14:45:31","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T13:45:31","slug":"labour-calls-north-swindon-stop-ukbn-wireless-broadband-rollout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/06\/labour-calls-north-swindon-stop-ukbn-wireless-broadband-rollout.html","title":{"rendered":"Labour Calls for North Swindon to Stop UKBN Wireless Broadband Rollout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Labour Leader for North Swindon, Jim Grant, has called on the council to stop spending public money on the construction of a superfast (24Mbps+) fixed wireless broadband network from UKB Networks because it is now in &#8220;<em>direct competition<\/em>&#8221; with <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>&#8217;s new &#8220;<em>fibre<\/em>&#8221; networks.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The history of broadband connectivity in <strong>North Swindon<\/strong> (Wiltshire) is a long and politically convoluted one. Until recently most premises in the northern half of the town suffered from a lack of access to faster &#8220;<em>fibre broadband<\/em>&#8221; because, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swindon.gov.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Swindon Borough Council<\/a>, neither <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/openreach\" target=\"_blank\">Openreach<\/a>) nor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Media<\/a> had showed much concrete interest in upgrading the local fixed line infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>After trying and apparently failing to secure an agreement with the two big boys, the local authority eventually contracted <a href=\"http:\/\/ukbnetworks.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UKB Networks<\/a>, at a cost of <strong>\u00a31.9 million<\/strong>, to build a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/4g\">4G<\/a> based Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) network that could deliver a minimum 24Mbps download speed. This aimed to reach over 19,500 homes and businesses in the intervention area (13,000 were in outlying rural areas).<\/p>\n<p>However, many in the local area continued to campaign for &#8220;<em>fibre<\/em>&#8221; connectivity and some were able to disrupt UKBN&#8217;s deployment plans (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/04\/ukb-networks-submit-new-wireless-broadband-masts-plan-north-swindon.html\">example<\/a>). Nevertheless UKBN proceeded with their deployment, although this occurred at about the same time as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Media<\/a> (<strong>Project Lightning<\/strong>) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a> both seemed to be having a slow change of heart.<\/p>\n<p>Last year Virgin Media announced that their ultrafast cable broadband and TV network would be extended to <strong>7,000 premises<\/strong> in North Swindon (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/06\/7000-swindon-premises-benefit-virgin-media-cable-expansion.html\">here<\/a>) and this was followed two weeks later by a similar commitment from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/openreach\" target=\"_blank\">Openreach<\/a> (BT), which pledged to reach <strong>6,500 premises<\/strong> with their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a> service (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/06\/bt-unveils-north-swindon-fibre-broadband-rollout-6500-premises.html\">here<\/a>). BT are also testing their new <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/gfast\">G.fast<\/a><\/strong> technology with <strong>19,800 premises<\/strong> in the town (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/05\/bt-details-coverage-first-330mbps-g-fast-broadband-pilot-areas.html\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Suffice to say that the contract with UKBN has now been put under some strain.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Councillor Jim Grant said (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk\/news\/15349973.Wind_up_council_backed_broadband_scheme__says_Labour\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Swindon Advertiser<\/a>):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;North Swindon residents have always said they wanted fibre optic broadband and now they are getting it I think it would be wrong to invest taxpayers\u2019 money to fund direct competition to BT. Especially competition that residents don\u2019t want.<\/p>\n<p>Frankly, local residents and the Labour Group have said from the very beginning that the Conservative cabinet were embarking on a big mistake in rolling out the UKBN\u2019s infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully huge sums haven\u2019t been wasted yet, but now is the time to draw an end to this scheme.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In fairness, both BT and Virgin Media only made a solid commitment sometime after the UKBN contract had been signed and it would have helped a lot if they had both been more pro-active a few years earlier. In addition, the local authority only had a comparatively small pot of money and the wireless approach gave them the ability to reach many more premises than might have otherwise been possible via fixed lines.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand the Labour Group are correct to say that the council now finds themselves in a tricky situation, where public money is being spent to fund a wireless network that is both slower and also in competition with the commercial fixed line upgrades being deployed by BT and Virgin Media.<\/p>\n<p>At present no decisions have been made about the future viability of the contract, although Conservative councillor Toby Elliott claims to be in discussions with UKBN. &#8220;<em>It remains an option to remove North Swindon from contract. This is due to the market intervening thanks to our work,<\/em>&#8221; said Toby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Labour Leader for North Swindon, Jim Grant, has called on the council to stop spending public money on the construction of a superfast (24Mbps+) fixed wireless broadband network from UKB Networks because it is now in &#8220;direct competition&#8221; with BT and Virgin Media&#8217;s new &#8220;fibre&#8221; networks.<\/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":[61,474,471,55,56,69,452,475,436,476],"class_list":["post-14082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-4g","tag-bt","tag-bduk","tag-fttc","tag-fttp","tag-bt-openreach","tag-swindon","tag-virgin-media","tag-wiltshire","tag-wifi"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - 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