{"id":16103,"date":"2018-05-14T09:46:31","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T08:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=16103"},"modified":"2018-05-14T09:46:31","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T08:46:31","slug":"up-your-street-scotland-tries-to-boost-fibre-broadband-take-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2018\/05\/up-your-street-scotland-tries-to-boost-fibre-broadband-take-up.html","title":{"rendered":"Up Your Street &#8211; Scotland Tries to Boost Fibre Broadband Take-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gov.scot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scottish Government<\/a>&#8216;s Connectivity Secretary, Fergus Ewing, has this week launched a new &#8220;<em>Up Your Street<\/em>&#8221; campaign that aims to promote more take-up of the country&#8217;s hybrid fibre (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttc\">FTTC<\/a> \/ Cable) dominated fixed line broadband services, which can reach nearly 97% of homes and businesses across Scotland.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>So far the \u00a3428m <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalscotland.org\/superfast-broadband\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Digital Scotland<\/a> (DSSB) 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>), which has been busy rolling out a mix of their &#8216;up to&#8217; 80Mbps capable <strong>Fibre-to-the-Cabinet<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttc\">FTTC<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/vdsl\">VDSL2<\/a>) and a small bit of Gigabit capable <strong>Fibre-to-the-Premises<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a>) technology (not to mention separate commercial deployments via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Media<\/a>&#8217;s cable network etc.), has already helped to reach nearly 97% of the country (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2018\/04\/scotland-claims-to-have-hit-95-fibre-broadband-coverage-target.html\">here<\/a>). Sadly this drops to around 93% when filtering by those able to access &#8220;<em>superfast broadband<\/em>&#8221; speeds of 30Mbps+.<\/p>\n<p>The state aid supported project is currently split into two geographic halves, including the &#8216;<em>Highlands and Islands<\/em>&#8216; region and the &#8216;<em>Rest of Scotland<\/em>&#8216;. At present the level of take-up in areas that have directly benefited from this is a reasonable 37% for the &#8216;Rest of Scotland&#8217; and 42.1% in the much more rural &#8216;Highlands and Islands&#8217; region.<\/p>\n<p>Related contracts include a clawback (gainshare) clause, which requires <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a> to return part of the public investment as customer adoption of the new service rises. The funding can then be reinvested to further improve coverage via future contracts. Efficiency savings from earlier phases can also be reinvested. In other words, boosting take-up can help pay for even more coverage.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Fergus Ewing said (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotsman.com\/news\/opinion\/fergus-ewing-superfast-broadband-rollout-is-a-big-hit-1-4738994\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scotsman<\/a>):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This hard work and deployment won\u2019t stop. Thanks to additional investment and new funding generated by stronger-than-expected take-up, the programme will continue to provide more access during 2018 and into 2019, complementing ongoing commercial build across Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>As one of the largest infrastructure projects in Europe, the DSSB programme has delivered on time and on budget. Using innovative new technology, including fibre to the premises (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a>) technology, without DSSB, only 66 per cent of premises would have fibre broadband access. In fact, over 93 per cent of homes and businesses can now benefit from superfast broadband of speeds of 30Mbps and above.<\/p>\n<p>This week I\u2019m helping to highlight these benefits by kicking off the \u2018<em>Up your Street<\/em>\u2019 campaign. As it weaves around the country, the campaign will highlight that faster and more reliable broadband is available across Scotland. To take advantage and reap the benefits, people need to sign up with a service provider. There are frequently good affordable deals available from a variety of different providers.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The campaign will no doubt also help to highlight the current <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/scotgov\" target=\"_blank\">Scottish Government<\/a>&#8217;s efforts but, given the issue of gainshare, it&#8217;s important not to overlook the positive impact that such work could have. Lack of general awareness (locals don\u2019t always know that the faster service exists) has shown itself to be a big obstacle and sometimes just telling people that it\u2019s available can be a real help.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand awareness isn&#8217;t the only obstacle to take-up. Other challenges can stem from the fear of switching to a different ISP or changing service, as well as higher prices for related connections or customers being locked into long contracts with an existing ISP (can\u2019t upgrade immediately). Likewise not everybody will feel the need or desire to upgrade from older and slower <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/adsl\">ADSL<\/a> lines etc.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/scotgov\" target=\"_blank\">Scottish Government<\/a> are still developing their \u00a3600m <strong>R100<\/strong> programme, which aspires to make 30Mbps+ capable superfast broadband networks available to &#8220;<em>every single premise in Scotland<\/em>&#8221; by the end of 2021 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/12\/scotland-commit-600m-100-coverage-30mbps-broadband.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2018\/03\/scotland-names-isp-bidders-for-100-superfast-broadband-rollout.html\">here<\/a>) or March 2022 as a financial year. Several suppliers including <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\/go\/gigaclear\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Gigaclear<\/a>, Axione and <a href=\"https:\/\/ssetelecoms.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SSE Enterprise Telecoms<\/a> are known to be bidding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Scottish Government&#8216;s Connectivity Secretary, Fergus Ewing, has this week launched a new &#8220;Up Your Street&#8221; campaign that aims to promote more take-up of the country&#8217;s hybrid fibre (FTTC \/ Cable) dominated fixed line broadband services, which can reach nearly 97% of homes and businesses across Scotland.<\/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":[474,55,56,69,38,89,475],"class_list":["post-16103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-bt","tag-fttc","tag-fttp","tag-bt-openreach","tag-politics","tag-scotland","tag-virgin-media"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Up Your Street - Scotland Tries to Boost Fibre Broadband Take-up - ISPreview UK<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Scottish Government&#039;s Connectivity Secretary, Fergus Ewing, has this week launched a new &quot;Up Your Street&quot; 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