{"id":19471,"date":"2019-09-16T10:52:54","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T09:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=19471"},"modified":"2019-09-26T09:19:50","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T08:19:50","slug":"480-rural-monmouthshire-premises-set-for-30mbps-broadband-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2019\/09\/480-rural-monmouthshire-premises-set-for-30mbps-broadband-boost.html","title":{"rendered":"480 Rural Monmouthshire Premises Set for 30Mbps Broadband Boost UPDATE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monmouthshire.gov.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Monmouthshire County Council<\/a> in Wales has posted a new contract notice, which proposes to help fund a new 30Mbps+ capable superfast broadband ISP network that would serve around 480 premises in rural parts of the county (focusing on areas around the towns of Abergavenny, Pontypool and Usk &#8211; north of Newport).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sell2wales.gov.wales\/search\/show\/search_view.aspx?ID=AUG306747\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the notice<\/a> (credits to Steve for spotting), the Sir Fynwy council want to see a new point-to-point (Line of Sight) network being installed to utilise either the existing backhaul from the Superfast Cymru infill scheme 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>) or any other UK commercial fibre provider. This network will feed branch networks to the identified areas.<\/p>\n<p>The supplier must also establish a &#8220;<em>robust backhaul connection<\/em>&#8221; through at least TWO separate connection points, which it states &#8220;<em>must be capable of providing sufficient bandwidth to maintain NGA speeds [30Mbps+] and avoid contention for all premises.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The total grant funding available for all this is <strong>\u00a3155,000<\/strong>, which works out as about \u00a3322 per premises (too low for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a> and even most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttc\">FTTC<\/a> in those areas) and this, combined with the description above, points the finger toward a <strong>Fixed Wireless Access<\/strong> (FWA) network of some sort.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>MCC Statement<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An application was made to Measure 7.3 of the Rural Communities Development Fund (RCDF) that was approved for grant funding. The scheme details can be found within the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/welshgov\" target=\"_blank\">Welsh Government<\/a>\u2019s Rural Development Programme 2014-2020 website.<\/p>\n<p>This grant is available to support communities in Wales where broadband deployment has been unsuccessful through other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/welshgov\" target=\"_blank\">Welsh Government<\/a> interventions. The funding application covers 480 premises in Monmouthshire, identified as \u2018White Premises\u2019 by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/welshgov\" target=\"_blank\">Welsh Government<\/a>. The total grant available amounts to \u00a3155,000.00 which is the maximum total cost of the new infrastructure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The estimated award date for this contract is said to be <strong>27th September 2019<\/strong>, although sadly we couldn&#8217;t find any further details on this specific project when looking back through several months of recent council meeting documents.<\/p>\n<p>However an update from May 2019 (<a href=\"https:\/\/democracy.monmouthshire.gov.uk\/mgConvert2PDF.aspx?ID=21858&amp;ISATT=1#search=%22broadband%22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>) did confirm that 30Mbps+ broadband services cover 87.4% of premises in the county, which means that &#8220;<em>there are still 12.6% of our 44,000 premises that have limited or not access to broadband, equating to approximately 6-8,000 premises, depending upon the outcome of additional reviews that are also currently taking place<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if an operator like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.broadwaypartners.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Broadway Partners<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.broadwaybroadband.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Broadway Broadband<\/a>), which already has some deployments in the county, picked up a contract like this as part of their efforts to rollout long-range TV White Space (TVWS) technology to serve rural areas with superfast broadband (examples <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2018\/08\/tvws-tech-brings-30mb-broadband-to-400-monmouthshire-homes.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2019\/07\/rural-gigabit-wireless-broadband-trial-in-wales-delivers-just-30mbps.html\">here<\/a>). Hopefully we&#8217;ll find out soon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE 26th Sept 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A small update on the contract notice states, &#8220;<em>We have received a number of completed tenders, with the selection panel meeting on the 26th September 2019<\/em>.&#8221; Apparently a final decision is expected to be made by 2nd October 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Monmouthshire County Council in Wales has posted a new contract notice, which proposes to help fund a new 30Mbps+ capable superfast broadband ISP network that would serve around 480 premises in rural parts of the county (focusing on areas around the towns of Abergavenny, Pontypool and Usk &#8211; north of Newport).<\/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":[38,71,476],"class_list":["post-19471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-politics","tag-wales","tag-wifi"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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