{"id":27535,"date":"2021-06-29T00:01:03","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T23:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=27535"},"modified":"2021-06-29T07:26:50","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T06:26:50","slug":"234000-premises-in-wales-to-benefit-from-5bn-project-gigabit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/06\/234000-premises-in-wales-to-benefit-from-5bn-project-gigabit.html","title":{"rendered":"234,000 Premises in Wales to Benefit from \u00a35bn Project Gigabit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK Government will today reveal that &#8220;<em>up to<\/em>&#8221; 234,000 hard-to-reach rural homes and businesses in Wales have been identified as &#8220;<em>in scope<\/em>&#8221; to potentially receive a gigabit-capable broadband upgrade, which should come as part of the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/03\/gov-starts-gbp5bn-uk-gigabit-broadband-and-voucher-schemes.html\"><strong>\u00a35bn Project Gigabit<\/strong><\/a> programme.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>At present around 40% of homes and businesses across the UK can already access a Gigabit speed capable broadband ISP network, which is likely to reach over half of premises by the end of 2021 (c.60%) and it\u2019s hoped that commercial deployments could push this up to around 80% by the end of 2025 (70-80% might be a better expression).<\/p>\n<p>In <strong>Wales<\/strong> the current coverage for gigabit-capable broadband is much lower at just 28%, although this figure will continue to grow thanks to major ongoing network expansions of <strong>Fibre-to-the-Premises<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a>) technology by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/openreach\" target=\"_blank\">Openreach<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/06\/q1-2021-progress-update-on-wales-bt-fttp-broadband-rollout.html\">here<\/a>), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/spectruminternet\" target=\"_blank\">Ogi<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/06\/spectrum-internet-ogi-start-huge-full-fibre-rollout-in-wales.html\">here<\/a>) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Media<\/a> etc.<\/p>\n<p>In order to support such efforts, the Government recently launched Project Gigabit, which is focused upon expanding gigabit-capable connectivity across the final 20% of predominantly rural premises. The project aims to ensure that such speeds reach at least 85% of UK premises by the end of 2025. The project also aims to get &#8220;<em>as close to 100% as possible<\/em>,&#8221; albeit depending upon how the industry responds (i.e. so far only \u00a31.2bn has been released for this, but more will be unlocked if the industry shows they can deliver what is needed).<\/p>\n<p>As part of that project the Government&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/bduk\" target=\"_blank\">Building Digital UK<\/a> team will today identify that<strong> 234,000 premises<\/strong> in Wales will be in-scope of the programme (i.e. they won&#8217;t benefit from the commercial build and thus require public subsidy to go further). This includes rural towns and villages in Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Gwynedd, the Isle of Anglesey, Pembrokeshire and Powys.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bq2\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> The figure of 234,000 premises stems from BDUK modelling based on all available data &#8211; this will be updated again soon, following another market review.<\/div>\n<p>At the time of writing that&#8217;s all the Government could really tell us, and they will set out the timetable for the delivery of these connections once they&#8217;ve agreed the procurement process with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/welshgov\" target=\"_blank\">Welsh Government<\/a>, which remains the subject of ongoing talks. As such we still don&#8217;t know precisely how the programme will be handled in Wales &#8211; in England it&#8217;s a centralised approach managed by BDUK. 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