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Across the UK various devolved and central parliaments have been returning to work this week in a very different way, with many connecting to hybrid public debates via live video conferencing from their own homes for the first time. But a few hiccups have helped to highlight how some areas still suffer from poor connectivity.<\/p>\n

At present a little over 96% of the United Kingdom should have access to order a fixed “superfast broadband<\/em>” (30Mbps+) service, which on the surface seems like more than enough to achieve a reasonable video conferencing connection. But there are some notable caveats to this when working from home, as some ministers from across Wales, Scotland, England and N.Ireland are now discovering first hand.<\/p>\n

Perhaps understandably the unavoidably rushed attempts at a virtual parliament have been a bit of a learning curve for some and there were plenty of stumbles, not least in respect to proper microphone control (e.g. children screaming [insert pun], the odd bit of unintentionally leaked swearing and so forth). Such things are of course fairly normal in the home environment and can be quite amusing when spilled over into a national parliament.<\/p>\n

However those weren’t the only problems. For example, during yesterday’s Prime Minister’s Questions<\/strong> (PMQ), the former Secretary of State for Scotland, David Mundell<\/strong> (Scottish Conservative), became the first MP unable to ask a question because of a faulty internet connection that left him “unable to connect<\/em>,” as the Speaker later explained.<\/p>\n

Similarly Julie Elliott<\/strong> (Labour MP), who in a twist of no uncertain irony was attempting to criticise the government’s roll-out of superfast broadband, found herself in a difficult predicament when her video stream appeared to hang mid-question: “You mentioned superfast broadbaaa.. aaann.. ddd..<\/em>,” said Elliott, before adding that it was the “bane of my life<\/em>” once her connection had returned to some semblance of normality.<\/p>\n

Caveats<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

In fairness we can’t analyse the exact cause of each issue above, of which there are also presently very few, and so there may be other factors at work (e.g. consumer choice of package \/ ISP, remote server issues, weak home WiFi<\/a>, local congestion on the network etc.), but it does help to highlight that there’s still plenty of room for improvement. Since MPs come from all over the country then some will inevitably be living in areas of poor connectivity.<\/p>\n

At this point the Government would probably highlight the current level of superfast coverage, as well as their 10Mbps USO as a “safety net<\/em>“, but there are some problems with those. Firstly, the “superfast<\/em>” commitments of the past only ever covered download speed and never included a solid target for uploads (a fact we’ve raised before), which are of course essential for live video conferencing.<\/p>\n

On the other hand most “superfast<\/em>” class fixed line connections should be able to deliver at least c.5-10Mbps or more upstream, which is enough for a video conference but in today’s home – under lockdown with the whole family – it’s still fairly easy to saturate that to the point of either extreme quality loss or heavy disruption (one extra streamer on twitch or a big upload to Facebook, for example).<\/p>\n

Meanwhile the USO does set a minimum required upload speed, but it’s only 1Mbps and that’s very poor. The fact that the USO has now been watered down so that most of it will only be delivered via highly variable 4G<\/a> mobile signals, rather than fixed line solutions, certainly hasn’t filled us with confidence (here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Nevertheless it’s good to see connectivity issues being so clearly evident via some very real practical examples in our parliaments’ (whether in Westminster, Holyrood etc.). Such issues will only help to highlight the remaining problem areas and encourage further work, which can only be a good thing. The downside is that resolving those problems will inevitably take time and that’s true of any solution.<\/p>\n

The Government has made a good start by committing \u00a35bn to bring “gigabit-capable<\/em>” broadband to those in the final 20% of hardest to reach premises (i.e. mostly rural areas but also some disadvantaged urban locations), which is part of their aim to make 1Gbps services available to all homes by the end of 2025.<\/p>\n

The reality though is that 2025 is still a fair few years away and the time-line they’ve set still seems overly optimistic. We fully expect the build to be on-going after 2025 and probably for several more years, albeit at a reduced pace with most of the country having been done by then (we hope). Sadly the COVID-19 crisis certainly won’t be helping to achieve that 2025 goal, but that’s an unavoidably reality.<\/p>\n

Speaking of COVID-19, the cross-party DCMS inquiry into the Government’s broadband and 5G<\/a> strategy (here<\/a>) has just been widened to include: “the impact of Covid-19 on the roll-out of full-fibre and 5G<\/a> infrastructure in both the short and medium-to-long term, including any differences in different parts of the UK<\/em>.” The deadline has also been extended to Friday June 19th 2020 (with a possibility for further extension).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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