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The Government has just approved some changes to the rules and eligibility criteria for both their \u00a367m Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme<\/a> (GBVS) and the \u00a3200m Rural Gigabit Connectivity<\/a> (RGC) programme, which effectively harmonises both schemes and helps the funding get to the right areas.<\/p>\n

Just to recap. The GBVS is the oldest of the two schemes and offers up to \u00a32,500 to help businesses and homes gain access to a 1Gbps capable broadband ISP connection (homes can only get \u00a3500 and up to 10 homes can participate for every 1 SME). Meanwhile the RGC launched last year and offers up to \u00a33,500 for small businesses and up to \u00a31,500 for residents.<\/p>\n

The greater value(s) of the RGC vouchers were intended to reflect the higher cost of deployment in rural areas. Crucially the RGC scheme does NOT include a business requirement like GBVS (i.e. homes can easily get a voucher), but like GBVS it is still possible to aggregate the vouchers in order to help tackle larger deployments.<\/p>\n

Since then the Government has set aside \u00a35bn to fuel their new ambition of deploying “gigabit-capable”<\/em> broadband networks to cover the whole of the United Kingdom by around 2025 (here<\/a>), albeit with a focus on the final 20% of hardest to reach premises. In response to that, and other issues, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport<\/a> (DCMS) has now made a few changes to align this policy with their GBVS and RGC programmes.<\/p>\n

GBVS Changes and Funding<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

As most people know the GBVS has been very popular and is thus running low on funding. At the time of writing we understand that \u00a358m of the \u00a367m has now been committed (reflecting a total of 58,000 requested vouchers), although this falls to \u00a339m when only looking at the final result of live connections (17,000).<\/p>\n

Meanwhile a further \u00a320m worth of projects are already in the pipeline but the vouchers themselves continue to be issued on a first come, first served basis until the money is exhausted. However the GBVS eligibility criteria is due to change on 31st January 2020 (ISPs will start to be informed about this from today), which means that areas where 100Mbps or faster services are available will no longer be eligible (e.g. areas with Virgin Media<\/a>, G.fast<\/a> or altnet ultrafast networks etc.).<\/p>\n

At this late stage the change isn’t all that important, although it may slightly prolong the scheme by effectively removing dense urban areas from scope (giving it more of a rural outside-in focus to align with Government thinking). Pre Registered Packages (PRP) that are already in progress via the old criteria can still be submitted up to 14th February, provided the vouchers themselves are then requested by 29th May 2020.<\/p>\n

RGC Changes<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

The RGC is a younger scheme and as such the total vouchers requested so far are just 4,000 (worth \u00a39m), with about 403 vouchers (worth \u00a3825,000) already being turned into live connections. Despite this some alternative network (altnet) ISPs have run into problems with the current minimum speed criteria of 30Mbps, which often means they can’t build gigabit-speed FTTP<\/a> in rural areas when a slower “superfast<\/em>” FTTC<\/a> network is present.<\/p>\n

Until now some operators have got around this problem by mixing GBVS and RGC vouchers, but with GBVS coming to an end and the Government switching their focus to “gigabit<\/em>” speed connectivity then it has become necessary to harmonise both voucher schemes to support the new focus (the DCMS \/ LFFN team have long intended to do this).<\/p>\n

In short, the RGC eligibility criteria is today changing so that rural areas where “ultrafast<\/em>” speed (>=100Mbps) is not available are now eligible (i.e. most rural premises). Now operators don’t have to worry about doing a patch-work build to avoid slower FTTC<\/a> areas, or mixing voucher schemes, and can instead focus on tackling entire villages with FTTP<\/a> etc.<\/p>\n

The move also avoids an awkward debate on the questionable accuracy of Ofcom<\/a>’s Connected Nations<\/strong><\/a> speed data, as well as the usual advertised ISP speed vs. actual speeds problem that some networks have, by setting a higher bar.<\/p>\n

Going forward it’s been suggested that the eligibility criteria may simply adopt a “final 20%<\/em>” style definition to align with the future \u00a35bn programme, but they’ll probably want to see what impact today’s change has first. On the other hand the RGC scheme is only due to run until March 2021 and so we may see such a change occurring this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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