{"id":14435,"date":"2017-08-10T09:12:09","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T08:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=14435"},"modified":"2017-08-10T09:18:38","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T08:18:38","slug":"hampshire-uk-commits-1m-install-community-broadband-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/08\/hampshire-uk-commits-1m-install-community-broadband-networks.html","title":{"rendered":"Hampshire UK Commits \u00a31m to Install Community Broadband Networks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Hampshire County Council in England has allocated \u00a31 million to help fund and support local communities that will not benefit from the regional roll-out of &#8220;<em>superfast broadband<\/em>&#8221; (24Mbps+) networks. Instead the communities can use the funding to help build an alternative, but there&#8217;s a catch.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>At present the local <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.hants.gov.uk\/broadband.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hampshire Superfast Broadband<\/a> project is already working with <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>) to roll-out &#8220;<em>superfast broadband<\/em>&#8221; networks to reach 97.4% of local premises by 2019, although tacking the final 2.6% of homes and businesses (mostly those in remote rural areas) will be difficult due to the high costs involved.<\/p>\n<p>Instead the council has setup a new <strong>Community Match Funding<\/strong> scheme. Under this approach the local authority will aim to provide &#8220;<em>up to half of the funding<\/em>&#8221; required to upgrade an area (e.g. a rural village), which must then be matched via money raised by communities or other services in order to deliver the new network.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>Eligibility for Community Match Funding<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nEligible communities are those not included in the current superfast broadband roll-out, where the community are willing and able to raise 50% of the cost of getting superfast broadband themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Applications accepted into the scheme will benefit from County Council funding up to 50% of the total cost (ex VAT) with a ceiling of \u00a31,650 per superfast premise passed.<\/p>\n<p>If necessary, communities will be responsible for their own VAT contribution.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Examples:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>a) \u00a325,000 for 50 premises = \u00a3500 per premise &#8211; the County Council will commit match-funding of \u00a3250 per premise, requiring the community to add \u00a3250 per premise.<\/p>\n<p>b) \u00a325,000 for 5 premises = \u00a35,000 per premise &#8211; the County Council will commit match-funding of \u00a31,650 per premise, requiring the community to add \u00a33,350 per premise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently a group of 17 properties in <strong>Silchester<\/strong> (near Tadley) have already taken advantage of the scheme, although no information has been provided about that deployment or the funding involved.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Roy Perry, Leader of Hampshire County Council, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Good broadband access is fundamental &#8211; people rely on the internet everyday, whether it\u2019s for banking and shopping, or learning and working from home. Not only is it vital for the economy of Hampshire, it is also an effective way of delivering modern and accessible public services. This money will allow more people to benefit from what is rapidly becoming an essential service.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The catch is that due to EU State Aid rules the public money can only be spent with companies that already have a contract with a public sector body to deliver superfast services, which means that any communities looking to take advantage of this have no freedom to work with any other network operator than <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>).<\/p>\n<p>This is somewhat disappointing, albeit not surprising and the council have said that their position &#8220;<em>remains under review<\/em>&#8221; (i.e. they might add more suppliers in the future).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Steve Haines, MD for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/openreach\" target=\"_blank\">Openreach<\/a>, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is great to be able to work with Hampshire County Council and communities like Silchester to find a fibre broadband solution. Openreach is committed to making fibre broadband as widely available as possible for households and businesses. The technology really does have the ability to transform the way people interact online.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Readers will note that the council&#8217;s fund can thus also be combined with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a>&#8217;s similar <a href=\"http:\/\/www.communityfibre.bt.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Community Fibre Partnerships<\/a> scheme, which is where BT offers to help fund part of the deployment (the community usually pays 50% of the cost). Communities can sometimes also make use of government grants (e.g. the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/business-finance-support\/better-broadband-subsidy-scheme-uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Better Broadband Subsidy Scheme<\/strong><\/a>, which is available until the end of 2017) in order to help further bring down the cost.<\/p>\n<p>By combining all of these elements it&#8217;s often possible to upgrade an area that would previously have been considered too expensive to reach. As usual the most tedious part often stems from encouraging enough people in a community to put money on the table, which is especially difficult to achieve in sparse rural areas with only a very few homes.<\/p>\n<p>The Government&#8217;s proposed 10Mbps USO has also added an additional dynamic to this by creating a degree of uncertainty about future connectivity provision. Some communities may well decide to wait and see whether they will be left with an inferior <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/satellite\">Satellite<\/a> solution or not before considering a co-funded community approach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hampshire County Council in England has allocated \u00a31 million to help fund and support local communities that will not benefit from the regional roll-out of &#8220;superfast broadband&#8221; (24Mbps+) networks. 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