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The First Minister of the Scottish Government<\/a>, Nicola Sturgeon, has issued a short update on the LOT 1 (North Scotland and Highlands) contract with BT<\/a> (Openreach<\/a>) under their \u00a3600m Reaching 100% (R100) project, which is extending “superfast broadband<\/em>” (30Mbps+) coverage across rural parts of Scotland (mostly via FTTP<\/a>).<\/p>\n

The LOT 1 contract, which is the largest of the three in the R100 programme (valued at \u00a3384m<\/strong> – with BT<\/a> contributing \u00a350m), was the last one to be awarded (here<\/a>) after it was delayed by a legal challenge from rival bidder Gigaclear<\/a> (here<\/a>). It is expected to deliver faster broadband to cover a further 59,276 premises<\/strong> using gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP<\/a>) technology.<\/p>\n

NOTE:<\/strong> At present around 95% of Scotland can access a 30Mbps+ network, while gigabit-capable broadband covers 60% (mostly thanks to Virgin Media<\/a>’s HFC upgrade) and full fibre (FTTP<\/a>) reaches 28% (here<\/a>).<\/div>\n

In addition, LOT 1 also includes a subsea fibre rollout (16 new links) to help connect 15 more remote islands (here<\/a>), which is due to commence during summer 2022. However, the build under the LOT 1 contract is not currently expected to reach completion until sometime “during the financial year 2026\/27<\/em>.” The Digital Scotland<\/strong><\/a> checker should help people to find out whether or when they’ll benefit from the R100 programme.<\/p>\n

Sadly, progress updates on R100 tend to be few and far between, but the MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, Finlay Carson<\/strong>, did yesterday succeed in extracting a brief update from the First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon<\/strong>, which we’ll paste in full below.<\/p>\n

Nicola Sturgeon said:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Of course, broadband investment is reserved to Westminster. However, given the United Kingdom Government\u2019s failure to deliver on that, alongside its failure to deliver on many other things, we have had to step in and make a difference.<\/p>\n

The R100 north contract was signed in December 2020. Despite the pandemic, a huge amount of preparatory work has been completed since then. A remodelling exercise ensured that every connection that is delivered will be full fibre. Survey work has been done for more than 5,000 properties and 16 subsea cables, which will deliver vital backhaul connectivity to 15 Scottish islands.<\/p>\n

We anticipate that, by the end of June, the north lot contract will have delivered more than 4,000 connections. The R100 Scottish broadband voucher scheme also ensures that everyone who wants a superfast broadband connection can now have one. Around 750 connections have already been delivered in the north of Scotland.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As useful as such vouchers might be, we do continue to take issue with the decision to represent the interim voucher scheme as “ensuring that everyone who wants a superfast broadband connection can now have one<\/em>,” which is an interesting way of interpreting such programmes. If that were indeed the case, then every government could use the same trick to say “job done<\/em>“, and often without actually building anything.<\/p>\n

The reality is that many people aren’t even aware that such schemes exist and, short of opting for a quick-fix via a satellite<\/a> or a mobile broadband solution (where viable), any associated applications that require a new network to be established could still take many months to actually be built or delivered.<\/p>\n

We note that SpaceX’s much improved LEO satellite<\/a> service (Starlink<\/a>), which may be a more attractive option for such vouchers, isn\u2019t yet fully available across the Highlands and that won\u2019t change until some unspecified time in 2023 (we ran a check using postcodes in Tain, like IV19 1AJ). One other caveat here is with the \u00a389 monthly rental, which is too expensive to be considered affordable for everybody.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, it’s good to know that R100 progress is being made, even if it would be nice to get some more routine quarterly progress updates from the Scottish Government<\/a>. Wink.. wink.. nudge.. nudge, anybody?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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