{"id":26350,"date":"2021-03-18T13:38:34","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T13:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=26350"},"modified":"2021-03-18T13:38:34","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T13:38:34","slug":"bduk-consults-on-gigabit-broadband-coverage-in-essex-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/03\/bduk-consults-on-gigabit-broadband-coverage-in-essex-uk.html","title":{"rendered":"BDUK Consults on Gigabit Broadband Coverage in Essex UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Government&#8217;s <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-66 shortlink-chref\" title=\"building digital uk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/guidance\/building-digital-uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-chref=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/guidance\/building-digital-uk\">Building Digital UK<\/a> team has today begun a new consultation to help them identify what existing or planned commercial gigabit-capable broadband coverage exists in Essex (England), which will help to establish the areas where public investment may be needed to deploy the service.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>At present the existing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.superfastessex.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Superfast Essex<\/a> (SFE) project with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/openreach\" target=\"_blank\">Openreach<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a>) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/gigaclear\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Gigaclear<\/a> has already helped to extend &#8220;<em>superfast broadband<\/em>&#8221; (<strong>24Mbps+<\/strong>) networks to nearly 140,000 properties, but the focus is now turning to future gigabit (<strong>1000Mbps+<\/strong>) capable connections.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bq2\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> Commercial rollouts of gigabit networks could push coverage up to 80% of UK premises by the end of 2025. The current UK figure is over 37% and rising fast (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/01\/2020-h2-uk-coverage-of-gigabit-broadband-reaches-37-4.html\">here<\/a>).<\/div>\n<p>As part of this the Government has already pledged to invest <strong>\u00a35bn<\/strong> on a new scheme &#8211; <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/12\/draft-strategy-for-5bn-uk-gigabit-broadband-rollout-published.html\">Project Gigabit<\/a><\/strong>, which aims to ensure that at least 85%+ of UK premises can access a gigabit-capable connection by the end of 2025 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/12\/draft-strategy-for-5bn-uk-gigabit-broadband-rollout-published.html\">here<\/a>). The effort for this will primarily be targeted at the final 20% of premises (i.e. the hardest to reach rural and some sub-urban areas), where commercial investment models tend to fail.<\/p>\n<p>In England the new programme will be much more centrally managed than the original Superfast Broadband (SFBB) scheme and that explains why the consultation for <strong>Essex<\/strong> is being run by BDUK, rather than the county council. In any case the first step is in identifying precisely which areas are not currently expected to benefit from gigabit speeds under existing deployments, or any plans for the next 3 years.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/consultations\/uk-gigabit-programme-essex-public-review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>new consultation<\/strong><\/a>, which will be open to responses from the public and stakeholders until <strong>19th April 2021<\/strong>, BDUK has so far identified a total of <strong>163,824 premises<\/strong> (white areas &#8211; see map below) that may be in need of intervention under the new project. Prior to today, Cumbria was the only other part of England to launch a similar consultation (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/02\/bduk-consults-on-gigabit-broadband-coverage-in-cumbria-uk.html\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none\" style=\"width: 100%; padding: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/gallery\/2021-article-illustrations\/essex_gigabit_map_bduk_mar_2021.jpg\" alt=\"essex_gigabit_map_bduk_mar_2021\"><\/p>\n<p>We can expect similar consultations like this to follow for other parts of England, although it&#8217;s currently still unclear how the government will handle all of this in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. In any case this means that Cumbria and Essex will probably be at the front of the queue once the new procurements for gigabit infrastructure &#8211; handled through a <strong>Dynamic Purchasing System<\/strong> (DPS) &#8211; begin this <strong>Spring 2021<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Assuming all goes to plan then the first contracts under this could be awarded by the end of 2021 or early 2022, but such things can be complicated, and we wouldn&#8217;t rule out some delays. The Government have also forewarned (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/10\/audit-office-casts-doubt-on-uk-2025-gigabit-broadband-target.html\">here<\/a>) that they consider the &#8220;<em>final 1%<\/em>&#8221; of premises &#8220;<em>could be prohibitively expensive to reach<\/em>&#8221; via even their gigabit programme (i.e. the same sort of area as their 10Mbps USO was supposed to fix and that has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/10\/ofcom-opens-probe-into-bt-compliance-with-broadband-uso.html\"><strong>suffered problems<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government&#8217;s Building Digital UK team has today begun a new consultation to help them identify what existing or planned commercial gigabit-capable broadband coverage exists in Essex (England), which will help to establish the areas where public investment may be needed to deploy the service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,1645],"tags":[471,456,38,1997],"class_list":["post-26350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","category-key_uk_isp_industry_developments","tag-bduk","tag-essex","tag-politics","tag-uk-gigabit-programme"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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