{"id":31289,"date":"2022-06-10T11:59:21","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T10:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=31289"},"modified":"2022-06-11T06:31:07","modified_gmt":"2022-06-11T05:31:07","slug":"bt-quotes-15-premises-on-shetland-725k-to-get-broadband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2022\/06\/bt-quotes-15-premises-on-shetland-725k-to-get-broadband.html","title":{"rendered":"BT Quotes 15 Premises on Shetland \u00a3725k to Get Broadband"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The MSP for the Shetland Islands (Scotland), Beatrice Wishart (LibDem), has helped to highlight the challenge of connecting some very remote rural communities after one group of 15 properties was quoted \u00a3725,000 to get faster broadband installed under the 10Mbps+ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/03\/10mbps-uk-broadband-universal-service-obligation-to-go-live.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Universal Service Obligation<\/a> (USO).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Sadly, it&#8217;s long been expected that the <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-142\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/scotgov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"Scottish Government\">Scottish Government<\/a>&#8217;s \u00a3600m Reaching 100% (<strong>R100<\/strong>) project with <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-145\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"BT\">BT<\/a> (<a class=\"shortlink shortlink-46 shortlink-chref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/openreach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"openreach\" data-chref=\"https:\/\/www.openreach.co.uk\">Openreach<\/a>), which is busy extending fixed &#8220;<em>superfast broadband<\/em>&#8221; (<strong>30Mbps+<\/strong>) coverage across rural parts of the country (almost entirely via <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-110 shortlink-chref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"fttp\" data-chref=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/broadband_fibre_optic.php\">FTTP<\/a>), would not be able to reach every property.<\/p>\n<p>At present, the main part of Shetland has already seen a number of fibre-based <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-120 shortlink-chref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"fttc\" data-chref=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/broadband_cable.php\">FTTC<\/a> (and a few <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-110 shortlink-chref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"fttp\" data-chref=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/broadband_fibre_optic.php\">FTTP<\/a>) broadband deployments, thanks largely to the laying of several subsea fibre optic cables via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shetlandtele.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shetland Telecom<\/a>. The latest links to Yell and Unst only went live a year ago, but that has so far only really been used to connect public sector sites. In addition, R100 and <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-145\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"BT\">BT<\/a> have an ongoing project to add several new subsea fibres (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2022\/05\/openreach-to-start-r100-subsea-fibre-broadband-build-in-scotland.html\">here<\/a>), which are due to complete later this year.<\/p>\n<p>However, ensuring the islands have access to good network capacity is only one part of the challenge, with running fibre to individual homes and businesses continuing to be a much bigger and more costly obstacle to overcome. According to <strong>Beatrice Wishart<\/strong> (MSP), some <strong>1,847 properties<\/strong> on the Shetland Islands are outside the scope of the main R100 build.<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>Solutions for Remote Shetland<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotlandsuperfast.com\/the-r100-programme\/scottish-broadband-voucher-scheme\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scottish Broadband Voucher Scheme<\/a> (SBVS) attempts to provide a backup for these areas via vouchers worth up to \u00a35,000 to help connect those properties for which there is no roll-out plan, which can in some areas be combined with the UK Government&#8217;s similar scheme to boost vouchers for homes up to \u00a36,500. But this too runs into problems in some of the most remote and thus expensive areas.<\/p>\n<p>The USO is another option and was aimed at those who can\u2019t yet receive a slower <strong>10Mbps+<\/strong> connection and aren\u2019t currently planned to get one in the next 12-months. <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-133 shortlink-chref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"ofcom\" data-chref=\"https:\/\/www.ofcom.org.uk\">Ofcom<\/a> states that 99,500 UK premises fall into this gap (i.e. those outside of both fixed line, fixed wireless and suitable <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-116 shortlink-chref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/4g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"4g\" data-chref=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/broadband_mobile.php\">4G<\/a> coverage). But this too has a cost threshold of \u00a33,400 (rising up to \u00a35,000) per premises &#8211; shared across a community, which limits how far it can go.<\/p>\n<p>The MSP&#8217;s example of a Shetland community of 15 properties (<strong>Clousta<\/strong>) being quoted <strong>\u00a3725,000<\/strong> by BT reflects a cost estimate (desktop quote) under the aforementioned USO. Put another way, that&#8217;s a cost of around \u00a348,333 per premises and is obviously well beyond the level of existing voucher schemes.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Beatrice Wishart said (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/uk-news\/2022\/06\/09\/shetlanders-quoted-725000-to-connect-to-broadband-says-msp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Express and Star<\/a>):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Out of more than 1,800 properties only four applications have been received for the main voucher, and only three have so far been issued. For those that need a fibre connection the quoted costs from commercial providers are beyond belief.<\/p>\n<p>A constituent has shared with me a recent quote from BT of \u00a3725,000. This is after the deduction of support grants from <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-133 shortlink-chref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"ofcom\" data-chref=\"https:\/\/www.ofcom.org.uk\">Ofcom<\/a> and works out to around \u00a348,000 each for the 15 properties in the community. This is clearly unaffordable.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At this point it&#8217;s important to recognise that this is not all BT&#8217;s fault, but rather a reflection of the fact that running optical fibre over a long distance and into some very remote and sparse communities is not, and never has been, a cheap or easy thing to do.<\/p>\n<p>Civil engineering is inherently expensive for every operator, and there aren&#8217;t many alternatives to <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-46 shortlink-chref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/openreach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"openreach\" data-chref=\"https:\/\/www.openreach.co.uk\">Openreach<\/a> on the Shetlands. As BT said about the Shetland example: <em>&#8220;Quotes reflect the physical cost of delivering that solution and sometimes, as a result, can be unavoidably high<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bq2\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> We assume this build would be FTTP, since copper-based <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-120 shortlink-chref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"fttc\" data-chref=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/broadband_cable.php\">FTTC<\/a> has effectively been retired from new deployments.<\/div>\n<p>We&#8217;ve covered such challenges before in a lot more depth (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/08\/the-high-cost-of-broadband-for-uso-excluded-uk-communities.html\">here<\/a>) and, sadly, \u00a3725,000 is not the biggest quote we&#8217;ve seen (a few others have stretched into the \u00a31m to \u00a32m territory). The Government&#8217;s new \u00a35bn <strong>Project Gigabit<\/strong> programme has similarly recognised that those in the final 0.3% of UK premises would be too expensive for even that project to reach, which is why they&#8217;re currently investigating alternatives (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2022\/02\/gov-ponders-approach-to-gigabit-broadband-in-remote-uk-areas.html\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The reality is that some extremely remote premises may not get FTTP, although <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-116 shortlink-chref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/4g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"4g\" data-chref=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/broadband_mobile.php\">4G<\/a> \/ 5G mobile coverage does continue to improve, while fixed wireless may be another option and the advent of LEO based ultrafast broadband satellites (e.g. <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-188\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/starlink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"Starlink Satellite Broadband\">Starlink<\/a>) is also on the table; but the latter is rather expensive to take as a monthly service. Hopefully the Government will soon set out how they plan to tackle such issues.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to all this, there also remains a general lack of awareness about the existence of both the broadband USO and the wider gigabit voucher schemes. Engaging with such schemes can also be confusing for a lot of people, which is one reason why they&#8217;re unlikely to be a long-term solution for everybody. Vouchers are the sticking plaster &#8211; they don&#8217;t have a big impact, but they do enable politicians to say there are options, even if they too can run out of steam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MSP for the Shetland Islands (Scotland), Beatrice Wishart (LibDem), has helped to highlight the challenge of connecting some very remote rural communities after one group of 15 properties was quoted \u00a3725,000 to get faster broadband installed under the 10Mbps+ Universal Service Obligation (USO).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[474,89,101,537],"class_list":["post-31289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-bt","tag-scotland","tag-shetland-islands","tag-uso"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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