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The annual Digging Up Britain 2021<\/a> report from LSBUD<\/a> (Line Search Before You Dig), which provides an online asset search facility to UK civil engineering firms for underground pipes and cables, has reported that there was a 24% increase in the amount of digging work performed by the telecoms industry over the last 12-months.<\/p>\n

Apparently, a total of 1,125,843 searches were performed through its portal by telecoms operators and their contractors in 2020 (up from 911,455 last year) and telecoms searches now account for 36% of all searches made (up from 32%). By comparison, the water industry was a close second on 825,322 requests, which is a 39% increase on the previous year.<\/p>\n

All of this is out of 3,078,670 total searches across all covered sectors (representing 77% of all digging work taking place in the UK), which is itself an increase of 9% over last year. None of this will come as much of a surprise to our readers, since for the past three years our pages have been filling with news on the rapidly growing network expansions for FTTP<\/a> broadband and 4G<\/a> or 5G<\/a> mobile services.<\/p>\n

The report itself suggests that part of the telecoms increase is down to the Government’s new \u00a35bn Project Gigabit programme, although it should be said that the first build contracts under than won’t even be awarded until around mid-2022, and the continuation of the linked rural gigabit voucher scheme doesn’t really play into the latest stats. Private sector deployments are thus the main driving force, for now.<\/p>\n

Richard Broome, MD of LSBUD, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Given these ambitions at Government-level, it\u2019s easy to see why the telecoms industry continues to top the charts in terms of searches. I can\u2019t see this momentum slowing down for a while to come.\u201d<\/p>\n

As COVID-19 restrictions are eased and non-essential projects get up and running again, the level of excavation work will boom, so it is important that each site has been planned accordingly, allowing the contractors working on behalf of the telecoms companies to hit the ground running.<\/p>\n

The important thing to bear in mind is that more digging can mean more danger. Hitting an underground pipe or cable is a serious health and safety threat and it can be incredibly disruptive to a utility provider\u2019s service. So, with a surge in digging activity predicted, we urge everyone involved in telecoms projects to keep the momentum up and keep on checking for underground assets \u2013 every time.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The report itself was actually published last month, but we were too busy with other articles at the time to write about this one.. until now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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