{"id":23480,"date":"2020-08-07T01:45:33","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T00:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=23480"},"modified":"2020-08-06T14:52:50","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T13:52:50","slug":"telecoms-operators-come-top-of-the-list-for-safe-uk-digging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/08\/telecoms-operators-come-top-of-the-list-for-safe-uk-digging.html","title":{"rendered":"Telecoms Operators Come Top of the List for Safe UK Digging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest annual Digging Up Britain 2020 report by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linesearchbeforeudig.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LSBUD<\/a>, which provides a free online asset search facility to UK civil engineering firms, has claimed that telecoms companies (broadband and mobile network operators etc.) are &#8220;<em>top of the list when it comes to safe digging<\/em>&#8221; (i.e. accounting for 32% of total searches).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Overall LSBUD (Line Search Before U Dig) found that 71% of all the digging that took place in 2019 was preceded by a LSBUD search and some 2.83 million of those took place in 2019, which represents a 10% increase on the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest users of this database were telecoms operators, which accounted for 911,455 (32%) of all searches, and they&#8217;re followed by water companies (21% of total requests). All of this is handy because it enables such companies to see what other utility assets (e.g. pipelines and cables) may exist where they&#8217;re due to dig, which helps to reduce the chances of accidentally damaging somebody else&#8217;s infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none\" style=\"padding: 0x; width: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/gallery\/2020-uk-internet-statistics\/LSBUD_telecoms_street_works_searches_2020.png\" alt=\"LSBUD_telecoms_street_works_searches_2020\"><\/p>\n<p>Naturally telecoms operators top the list because they&#8217;re currently involved in several major projects, such as the deployment of new gigabit-capable fixed broadband and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/5g\">5G<\/a> mobile infrastructure.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Richard Broome, Managing Director of LSBUD, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have reached a \u2018tipping point\u2019 in terms of safe digging &#8211; both for the UK\u2019s underground pipes and cables, and those who dig near them. Our data suggests asset searching on the LSBUD portal has rapidly become second nature for people. It\u2019s now a standard step in the vast majority of excavation projects. This is clearly very good news for asset owners such as telecoms companies as the last thing they need is a spade or digger hitting their networks.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Given that a lot of the new telecoms deployments stem, in part, from ambitions at Government-level (e.g. gigabit broadband for all by the end of 2025), then it&#8217;s probably fair to say that the industry will continue to top the charts &#8211; in terms of searches &#8211; for a while to come.<\/p>\n<p>The catch here is that LSBUD doesn&#8217;t provide any solid information to show whether or not the increase in searches is actually having an downward impact on the number of recorded incidents against telecoms networks that occur during street works each year (e.g. were there fewer occasions where a third-party accidentally cuts through an existing telecoms duct or cable?).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest annual Digging Up Britain 2020 report by LSBUD, which provides a free online asset search facility to UK civil engineering firms, has claimed that telecoms companies (broadband and mobile network operators etc.) are &#8220;top of the list when it comes to safe digging&#8221; (i.e. accounting for 32% of total searches).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-23480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-statistics"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - 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