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The Hampshire County Council<\/a> (HCC) in England appears set to slash its spending on rural broadband upgrades for the coming year, which will see it falling sharply from \u00a3130,000 in 2022\/23 to just \u00a35,000 in 2023\/24. But this change perhaps isn’t as surprising as it might first appear.<\/p>\n

Just to give this some context. Last June the council reported that its original Superfast Broadband Programme<\/strong> (SFBB), under the Building Digital UK<\/a> (BDUK) framework, had – between 2013 and 2022 – helped to lift the coverage of 24Mbps+ capable fixed “superfast broadband<\/em>” ISP networks to 97.4% of premises across the county (predominantly with support from Openreach<\/a>). A total of 115,000 premises directly benefitted from this.<\/p>\n

NOTE:<\/strong> The figure of \u00a3130k is from the original 2022\/23 budget, but the council also now gives a revised budget figure of \u00a3179k (they change the budget structure).<\/div>\n

Since around 2010 the council has invested roughly \u00a313m into the associated Superfast Hampshire<\/a> programme, while the UK government (BDUK) invested \u00a314.2m and BT<\/a> has contributed \u00a37.6m to the project. But at the last update, the local authority also revealed that would still leave around 20,000 premises that are unable to access “superfast<\/em>” speeds.<\/p>\n

The council initially suggested that it would aim to tackle the remaining 20k through top-up funding via the Government’s Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme<\/a> (GBVS), but that top-up ran dry at the end of last summer (here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

According to HCC’s Director of Corporate Operations, Rob Carr<\/strong> (Advertiser and Times<\/a>), the council is now trying to “plug the gap<\/em>” by harnessing the UK’s \u00a35bn Project Gigabit<\/a> broadband rollout scheme. But funding and contract allocations under that programme is now being centrally managed in England (i.e. not local authority managed, like the earlier SFBB scheme).<\/p>\n

On top of that, the value of vouchers under the GBVS scheme have also recently been boosted by the UK government up to \u00a34,500<\/strong> (here<\/a>). Previously, homes could only get up to \u00a31,500, although this was often boosted up to \u00a33,000 via top-up funding from councils (HCC did this before).<\/p>\n

The situation suggests that Hampshire, and indeed local authorities in general (at least in England), now have significantly less of an incentive to provide match-funding for rural broadband schemes, partly because they’re no longer in the driver’s seat. Not forgetting that many councils now have much bigger budgetary pressures to contend with too. So don’t be surprised if you see other councils stepping back like this.<\/p>\n

Indeed, Project Gigabit already has a procurement (LOT 27<\/strong>) running for Hampshire (here<\/a>), which proposes to commit \u00a3104.1m<\/strong> of public funding to expand gigabit-capable broadband to an estimated 88,600 premises in the county (i.e. those that are not expected to be covered by commercial builds within the next 3 years). The contract for this is due to be awarded by the end of June 2023, but it won’t necessarily catch all of the remaining 20,000 premises (i.e. those without even ‘superfast’ speeds, let alone gigabit speeds) in the remotest locations as some of those will simply be too expensive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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