{"id":2435,"date":"2013-01-10T13:34:52","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T13:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=2435"},"modified":"2013-01-11T08:06:13","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T08:06:13","slug":"northumberland-seeks-extra-10-million-to-boost-rural-superfast-broadband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/01\/northumberland-seeks-extra-10-million-to-boost-rural-superfast-broadband.html","title":{"rendered":"UPD Northumberland Seek Extra \u00a310 million to Boost Rural Superfast Broadband"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigners in <strong>Northumberland<\/strong> (North England) will today call on the government\u2019s Chief Secretary to the Treasury, <strong>Danny Alexander<\/strong>, to find an additional <strong>\u00a310m<\/strong> from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/bduk\" target=\"_blank\">Broadband Delivery UK<\/a> (BDUK) office to help expand the reach of superfast broadband services into more of the county&#8217;s rural towns and villages.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Northumberland has a total <strong>population of 312,000<\/strong>, with no single community larger than 35,000 residents, and 96% of the county is officially said to be classified as rural. Indeed it&#8217;s said to have the lowest number of people per square kilometre (61) in England. The council estimates that some 101,000 residential and 8,000 business addresses are in need of <strong>state aid<\/strong> to improve their broadband access.<\/p>\n<p>So far BDUK has committed <strong>\u00a37,030,000<\/strong>, which is supported by a further <strong>\u00a37m<\/strong> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northumberland.gov.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Northumberland County Council<\/a> and another <strong>\u00a314m<\/strong> or so from the private sector (e.g. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a>), to help ensure that 90% of &#8220;<em>all target premises<\/em>&#8221; will have access to a superfast broadband service of at least <strong>25Mbps<\/strong> by 2015, then 95% by 2018 and finally <strong>100% by 2020<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>On top of that, extra funding has already been secured for five local projects in Hexhamshire, Felton, North Tyne and Redesdale, Riding Mill, Rothbury and Coquetdale. Total funding is expected to reach around \u00a328m to \u00a335m, though campaigners claim that an extra +\u00a310m will be needed to do the job properly.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Louise Kirkwood, Local Resident, said (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.journallive.co.uk\/north-east-news\/todays-news\/2013\/01\/10\/minister-urged-to-extend-broadband-connections-to-northumberland-61634-32578190\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Journal<\/a>):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>If Rothbury gets good news today that would be a good start. We know one of the big issues for say, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a>, is the manpower costs, so we, tenants and landowners and families, have offered to help where we can. We have no shortage of people here who know how to use tractors, that\u2019s for sure.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We need to be connected because I\u2019m not sure there\u2019s much of a future for Northumberland without this. It is vital in so many ways. If you look at the generation that will soon retire, they have come to expect good internet connections, they will live elsewhere without that<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Indeed campaigners are expected to propose a <strong>Build and Benefit Scheme<\/strong> to Mr Alexander, which would see locals help to dig their own cable trenches in order to lower <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a>&#8217;s costs (BT has not yet been selected for the contract but as usual it appears to be the only viable bidder); although that would be highly reliant on volunteers.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes shortly after the local council unveiled a new <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/01\/northumberland-uk-to-benefit-from-1-3m-broadband-loan-scheme.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a31.3 million loan scheme<\/a><\/strong> that&#8217;s designed to encourage small <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/satellite\">satellite<\/a>, wireless or other alternative ISPs to come into the area and offer their broadband services to the most remote rural communities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE 11th January 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Both a new wayleave deal and related\u00a0\u00a3450k rural broadband project have been announced in the county (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/01\/cla-and-nfu-reach-uk-national-wayleave-deal-to-boost-rural-broadband.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigners in Northumberland (North England) will today call on the government\u2019s Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander, to find an additional \u00a310m from the Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) office to help expand the reach of superfast broadband services into more of the county&#8217;s rural towns and villages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[471],"class_list":["post-2435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-bduk"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - 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