{"id":21318,"date":"2020-03-02T11:50:29","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T11:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=21318"},"modified":"2020-03-02T11:50:29","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T11:50:29","slug":"clarification-of-west-oxfordshire-uks-broadband-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/03\/clarification-of-west-oxfordshire-uks-broadband-investment.html","title":{"rendered":"Clarification of West Oxfordshire UK&#8217;s Broadband Investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A number of readers noted to us this morning that the West Oxfordshire District Council (WODC) appeared to have announced new funding to help high speed broadband spread across more of the county, which was said to form part of the local authority&#8217;s \u00a344m budget for 2020\/21. But this is not the correct context.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The report, which first surfaced in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordmail.co.uk\/news\/18269459.west-oxfordshire-district-council-approves-budget\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oxford Mail<\/a>, had us searching through a year&#8217;s worth of council meeting documents and yet not a single one mentioned any new plans or funding for broadband; at least nothing beyond the existing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/10\/gigaclear-west-oxfordshire-agree-new-1gbps-broadband-rollout-deal.html\">Gigaclear contract<\/a> (i.e. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/gigaclear\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Gigaclear<\/a> were contracted in 2017 and are extending &#8220;<em>full fibre<\/em>&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a> to around 11,000 premises in West Oxfordshire by Q1 2020 &#8211; a mix of publicly funded and commercial roll-out).<\/p>\n<p>The bad news is that the broadband funding mention in the local newspaper isn&#8217;t new money and relates to that existing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/gigaclear\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Gigaclear<\/a> contract. The local authority clarified to ISPreview.co.uk today that the way their contract with the ISP is structured, the milestones which trigger payment from the council are towards the end of the build (the earlier milestones trigger BDUK payments which have been defrayed).<\/p>\n<p>In other words, even though the project is said to be &#8220;<em>progressing well<\/em>&#8220;, WODC have not actually defrayed any of their funds yet but this process will begin during the new financial year (hence the mention of broadband funding). Just for the record, the council and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/bduk\" target=\"_blank\">Building Digital UK<\/a> (BDUK) committed about \u00a33.1m of public funding to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/gigaclear\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Gigaclear<\/a>&#8217;s \u00a38m contract. The ISP has separately invested another \u00a38m into their commercial roll-out in the county.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of readers noted to us this morning that the West Oxfordshire District Council (WODC) appeared to have announced new funding to help high speed broadband spread across more of the county, which was said to form part of the local authority&#8217;s \u00a344m budget for 2020\/21. But this is not the correct context.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[471,65,56,416,434,476],"class_list":["post-21318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-bduk","tag-ftth","tag-fttp","tag-gigaclear","tag-oxfordshire","tag-wifi"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Clarification of West Oxfordshire UK&#039;s Broadband Investment - ISPreview UK<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A number of readers noted to us this morning that the West Oxfordshire District Council (WODC) appeared to have announced new funding to help high speed\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/03\/clarification-of-west-oxfordshire-uks-broadband-investment.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Clarification of West Oxfordshire UK&#039;s Broadband Investment - 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