{"id":14110,"date":"2017-06-21T10:00:26","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T09:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=14110"},"modified":"2017-06-21T10:06:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T09:06:41","slug":"better-broadband-mobile-boost-scotlands-economy-25bn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/06\/better-broadband-mobile-boost-scotlands-economy-25bn.html","title":{"rendered":"Better Broadband and Mobile Could Help Boost Scotland&#8217;s Economy by \u00a325bn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbi.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Confederation of British Industry<\/a> (CBI) has today published a new report, which claims that faster and more reliable broadband and mobile connectivity are two of several key factors that could help to deliver a \u00a325 billion boost to the Scottish economy by 2024.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The analysis found that the most productive local authority areas (LA) in Scotland (i.e. Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire) are 50% more productive than the least productive (Shetland Islands). CBI Scotland then calculated what the economic impact would be by 2024 if each local area were to improve at the same rate as the top performer, before explaining how this could actually be achieved.<\/p>\n<p>CBI Scotland&#8217;s baseline scenario (i.e. productivity for each LA continues to grow at roughly the same pace as it did between 2004 to 2014) results in Scotland&#8217;s nominal gross value added (GVA) rising 32% to \u00a3163.62bn by 2024. However if each LA grew at the same pace as the top performers then the nominal GVA of the Scottish economy would climb 53% to \u00a3188.55bn by 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly this is a very simplistic analysis and it fails to quantify precisely how much of that growth could come from improving digital connectivity beyond existing levels, which is a very difficult thing to get right. Nevertheless the report proceeds to recommend improvements in broadband and mobile connectivity.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>CBI Report Extract &#8211; Broadband<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Digital connectivity is part of our critical national infrastructure and ensuring that Scotland\u2019s digital infrastructure meets business\u2019 needs of tomorrow will be crucial to lifting productivity. Previous CBI research shows 91% of firms rank digital networks as a key factor in investment decisions.<\/p>\n<p>CBI Scotland welcomes the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/scotgov\" target=\"_blank\">Scottish government<\/a>\u2019s commitment to ensure that every business and residential premise in Scotland is able to access superfast broadband by 2021. Achieving this ambitious target will require continued public and private partnership.<\/p>\n<p>However, reliability, as well as speed, of connection is vital to businesses across the country, many of whom often need to connect with others internationally. This came out as a key concern in our consultation with members, with a number of businesses having experienced reliability issues at busy times of the day.<\/p>\n<p>Businesses are also increasingly reliant on the ability to work on the move. However, mobile coverage on many roads in Scotland is poor, falling below the UK average. Increasing the availability and improving the reliability of broadband coverage on public transport would help to reduce productivity loss during travel.<\/p>\n<p>CBI Scotland continues to call for digital connectivity to be integrated into all future infrastructure planning and development decisions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At present the \u00a3428m <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalscotland.org\/superfast-broadband\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Digital Scotland<\/a> project with <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>) has already ensured that &#8220;<em>superfast broadband<\/em>&#8221; (30Mbps+) are able to cover &#8220;<em>more than<\/em>&#8221; 90% of the country and the existing contract expects to push this &#8220;<em>high speed fibre broadband<\/em>&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttc\">FTTC<\/a>\/P) network out to cover 95% of premises by the end of March 2018, which drops to 86% by the end of 2017 if you only look at the rural <strong>Highland and Islands<\/strong> region (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/10\/clawback-boost-scotlands-highlands-fibre-broadband-cover-86.html\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>However the SNP dominated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/scotgov\" target=\"_blank\">Scottish Government<\/a> are currently working to develop a plan that will extend &#8220;<em>superfast broadband<\/em>&#8221; coverage to 100% of premises by 2021 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/09\/scotland-starts-planning-30mbps-broadband-2021-goal.html\">here<\/a>) and today&#8217;s report welcomes that move, while also proposing a series of recommendations for harnessing digital connectivity in order to improve growth.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>Recommendations<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>For the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/scotgov\" target=\"_blank\">Scottish government<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Prioritise the completion of existing transport infrastructure commitments on time and continue to improve connectivity between Scotland\u2019s City Deal Regions and with our key markets across the UK.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Ensure decisions on future infrastructure investment are influenced by the potential economic impact of reducing journey times within local areas, which can lift productivity by giving businesses access to a greater pool of skills and talent.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Pursue the reduction and eventual abolition of Scottish Air Passenger Duty to give Scotland an edge in the global marketplace for investment, tourism and trade.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Ensure digital connectivity is integrated into all future infrastructure planning and development decisions.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Work with the private sector and provide the funding necessary to deliver its commitment of ensuring that every business in Scotland is able to access superfast broadband by 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Increase the availability and improve the reliability of broadband coverage on public transport to help reduce productivity loss during travel.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For business<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Engage early with the Scottish government to help identify the next generation of priority infrastructure projects that would deliver maximum benefit to the economy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a map of how each LA would fair if the performance of each was to match the top performing regions over the next decade.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/gallery\/2017-uk-internet-statistics\/scotland_2024_economic_boost_map.png\" alt=\"scotland 2024 economic boost map\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has today published a new report, which claims that faster and more reliable broadband and mobile connectivity are two of several key factors that could help to deliver a \u00a325 billion boost to the Scottish economy by 2024.<\/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":[89,34],"class_list":["post-14110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-scotland","tag-statistics"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - 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