{"id":2045,"date":"2012-11-08T08:19:49","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T08:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=2045"},"modified":"2012-11-08T10:31:05","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T10:31:05","slug":"uk-culture-secretary-tackles-eu-over-delayed-broadband-approvals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/11\/uk-culture-secretary-tackles-eu-over-delayed-broadband-approvals.html","title":{"rendered":"UK Culture Secretary to Lobby EU Over Delayed Broadband Funding Approval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK government\u2019s Culture Secretary, <strong>Maria Miller MP<\/strong>, will today fly out to Brussels\u00a0with the hope of persuading the European Commission (EC) to grant final approval for the release of <strong>state aid funding<\/strong>, which would allow local authorities to proceed with their national roll-out of superfast broadband services.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s believed that around half of the 47 <strong>Local Broadband Plans<\/strong> (LBP), which are intended to help 90% of UK people gain access to a superfast broadband (<strong>25Mbps+<\/strong>) service by March 2015, have been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/07\/european-commission-stalls-uk-superfast-broadband-rollout-plans.html\" target=\"_blank\">stuck in limbo for several months<\/a> after the EC expressed <strong>competition concerns<\/strong>. As a result some \u00a3530m in public money cannot be released to start the physical deployment phase.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>A Spokesperson for the Department of Culture, Media and Sport said (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/ae3f6d82-2906-11e2-86d7-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2Bc1HenOb\" target=\"_blank\">FT<\/a>): <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Maria Miller is frustrated that EU red tape is holding up the delivery of broadband in the UK, infrastructure that is essential to the country\u2019s economic growth.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>She will be lobbying the commission face to face, as well as urging our elected representatives in Brussels to support what is best for UK businesses and the UK\u2019s economy<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In particular the EC are understood to be concerned about the <strong>limited choice of operators<\/strong> in the related <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/bduk\" target=\"_blank\">Broadband Delivery UK<\/a> (BDUK) framework, which only allows for the selection of either <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a> or Fujitsu (i.e. smaller ISPs are perhaps unfairly excluded). But Fujitsu, which was recently re-classified as \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/09\/uk-government-black-marks-fujitsu-superfast-broadband-bids-as-high-risk.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>high risk<\/em><\/a>\u201d for government contracts, has so far withdrawn from most of the bidding (often long before the contracts were due to be awarded).<\/p>\n<p>Fujitsu originally planned to build an ultrafast <strong>1Gbps<\/strong> capable fibre optic (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ftth\">FTTH<\/a>) broadband network that could have reached <strong>5 Million UK premises<\/strong> in rural areas by 2016, although not unlike <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a> it would have required almost all of BDUK\u2019s budget and needed at least 1 million premises to break even (easier said than done when you&#8217;re talking about rural areas and an unproven project). As a result <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a> has been left to pick up the contracts and most now expect it to win the lion&#8217;s share of public funding.<\/p>\n<p>The situation appeared to be moving forward in October when the EC&#8217;s competition boss, <strong>Joaqu\u00edn Almunia<\/strong>, requested several unspecified and \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/10\/eu-requests-minor-changes-for-broadband-delivery-uk-state-aid-clearance.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>relatively minor changes<\/em><\/a>\u201d to BDUK\u2019s design. Unfortunately this first needed to be approved by the other commissioners, which DCMS expected to happen by &#8220;<em>early November 2012<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>A Spokesperson for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport said (October 2012): <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>It is our understanding that the commission is on track to issue its final decision in late October or early November 2012, which will allow [affected BDUK] projects to get under way<\/em>.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The situation, combined with other problems, has already had a significant impact on the country\u2019s national broadband strategy. The local procurement processes were originally supposed to be completed by the end of 2012 but this was recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/08\/waiting-game-continues-as-jeremy-hunt-mp-restates-uk-broadband-policy.html\" target=\"_blank\">put back to July 2013<\/a> (<strong>6 month delay<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>In fairness it would be wrong to blame this delay upon Europe. Indeed the UK government took several months to supply the EC with related documentation, which was require before the assessment could be completed, and BDUK&#8217;s design has arguably been flawed right from the start.<\/p>\n<p>ISPreview.co.uk has contacted the EC several times over the matter but so far nobody has been willing to give us an update or to explain what the &#8220;<em>minor changes<\/em>&#8221; actually are. Meanwhile most ordinary people don&#8217;t much care about how the service arrives at their doorstep; they just want it to arrive in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK government\u2019s Culture Secretary, Maria Miller MP, will today fly out to Brussels\u00a0with the hope of persuading the European Commission (EC) to grant final approval for the release of state aid funding, which would allow local authorities to proceed with their national roll-out of superfast broadband services.<\/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":[474,471,37,85,114,38],"class_list":["post-2045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-bt","tag-bduk","tag-digital-agenda","tag-europe","tag-fujitsu","tag-politics"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - 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