{"id":23747,"date":"2020-08-25T16:53:47","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T15:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=23747"},"modified":"2020-08-26T12:43:46","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T11:43:46","slug":"gigaclear-settles-broadband-lawsuit-with-scottish-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/08\/gigaclear-settles-broadband-lawsuit-with-scottish-government.html","title":{"rendered":"Gigaclear Settles Broadband Lawsuit with Scottish Government UPDATE"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve just been informed that UK ISP Gigaclear<\/a> has today reached a settlement in their R100 (Reaching 100%) legal dispute with the Scottish Government<\/a>. The case had been preventing the LOT 1 part of the deployment contract from being award to BT<\/a> and thus delaying the roll-out of “superfast broadband<\/em>” (30Mbps+).<\/p>\n

At present Scotland has already awarded two out of its three contracts under their \u00a3579m<\/strong> R100 project – Central (LOT 2<\/strong>) and Southern (LOT 3<\/strong>) – to BT<\/a> (Openreach<\/a>). Meanwhile a legal challenge by UK ISP Gigaclear<\/a>, which was brought against the proposed award of LOT 1<\/strong> (North Scotland \/ Highlands) to BT<\/a>, had been preventing that from moving forward (here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

NOTE:<\/strong> R100 focuses on the final 5-6% of premises without access to 30Mbps+ broadband or any future upgrade plans. The LOT 2 contract will upgrade at least 47,000 of these, while LOT 3 will do around 26,000.<\/div>\n

The majority of Openreach<\/a>’s build, excluding LOT 1, should be completed by the end of 2023 (LOT 3 by summer 2024) and almost all of this is expected to be delivered using gigabit capable Fibre-to-the-Premises<\/strong> (FTTP<\/a>) technology (see here<\/a> and here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

However, the LOT 1 area is the largest one (valued c.\u00a3384m) and reflects about 100,000 premises around the Highlands and Islands, Angus, Aberdeen and Dundee. The contract also specified 9 mandated areas where 25% of premises must be able to get speeds of at least 100Mbps (on a Gigabit-capable connection). Gigaclear<\/a> was one of several providers to bid on LOT 1.<\/p>\n

Gigaclear’s lawyer, Mark Lindsay QC<\/strong>, previously argued (here<\/a>) that Scottish Ministers made a “manifest error<\/em>” in the procurement process (apparently this relates to the technical issue of bid scoring). The provider had reportedly sought for the court to set aside BT’s award, with the possibility of financial damages as a “secondary remedy<\/em>“.<\/p>\n

The good news is that we’ve this afternoon been informed that Gigaclear has reached a settlement in the R100 dispute (CA172\/19 Gigaclear Ltd &c v The Scottish Ministers<\/strong>). At present this is breaking news and we have very little information to add, except that the ISP is under a confidentiality agreement and so can only confirm the fact that the case is settled.<\/p>\n

We are currently attempting to confirm whether or not the LOT 1 award can now proceed with BT, although that would seem to be the implication. We hope to have more details shortly.<\/p>\n

UPDATE 26th August 2020 – 11:48am<\/strong><\/p>\n

We’ve managed to get a response from the Scottish Government<\/a> and BT, which sounds like good news.<\/p>\n

A Scottish Government<\/a> Spokesperson said:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“We can confirm that agreement has been reached on this matter and we will now focus on finalising the North Lot contract to enable us to, as quickly as possible, progress delivery of access to superfast broadband to people, businesses and communities in some of the most remote parts of Scotland.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

An Openreach<\/a> spokesperson said:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“We\u2019re very pleased the legal action has been resolved and we can now move toward signing contracts which will allow detailed survey work to start in the North of Scotland.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We now have to wait a little bit before the details of the LOT 1 deployment are known.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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