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The Scottish Government<\/a> has released a small update on the progress of their \u00a3600m Reaching 100% (R100) project with Openreach<\/a> (BT<\/a>). This confirms that a total of 16,600 rural properties have so far been covered by a fixed “superfast broadband<\/em>” (30Mbps+) ISP network under the scheme (inc. 2,800 connections via R100 vouchers).<\/p>\n

At present more than 95% of premises in Scotland already have access to a 30Mbps+ capable network and a further 114,869 premises<\/strong> are planned to be covered through the three R100 contract LOTs by March 2028 (here<\/a> and here<\/a>). LOT 1<\/strong> (North Scotland and the Highlands) is expected to cover around 59,000 premises (100% via FTTP<\/a>) by 2027\/28, while LOT 2<\/strong> (Central Scotland) will reach 32,000 premises (95.6% via FTTP<\/a> and the rest FTTC<\/a>) by 2023\/24 and LOT 3<\/strong> (Southern Scotland) will reach 21,000 premises (100% via FTTP<\/a>) by 2024\/25.<\/p>\n

NOTE:<\/strong> In Scotland the responsibility for broadband is technically devolved to Westminster, but that doesn\u2019t stop local and devolved authorities from making their own investments (e.g. R100).<\/div>\n

The latest progress update on this project doesn’t tell us much that we didn’t already know, although it’s interesting to note that the Scottish Government<\/a> is still trying to convince people that the voucher scheme has already enabled them to achieve the original R100 completion target. The previous goal was for the rollout to complete by the end of 2021, which of course never happened.<\/p>\n

Ivan McKee, Minister for Business, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“As at 31 December 2021, all homes and business across Scotland had the ability to access a superfast broadband connection through one of the three strands of activity that make up the R100\u2014reaching 100 per cent\u2014programme: the \u00a3600 million R100 contracts, the demand-led R100 Scottish broadband voucher scheme and commercial coverage.<\/p>\n

By the end of December 2022, the R100 contracts had built connections to more than 16,600 properties across the length and breadth of Scotland, with more than 2,800 connections also delivered through R100 vouchers.<\/p>\n

The voucher scheme was put in place to ensure that anyone who wanted to connect as at that date was able to do so”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Just to be clear, if voucher schemes were the answer to everything then the UK’s various governments would have said “job done<\/em>” years ago and stopped investing, but the reality is usually quite different from that of the political sales pitch. As such, “all homes and business across Scotland<\/em>” most certainly did NOT have “the ability to access a superfast broadband connection<\/em>” by the end of 2021, as claimed above.<\/p>\n

The reality is that many people aren\u2019t even aware that such vouchers exist and, short of opting for a quick-fix via a satellite<\/a> (many of these have big limitations) or mobile broadband solution (where viable), any associated applications that require a new network to be established could still take many months or years to actually be built.<\/p>\n

Not to mention that some areas will still be too expensive for even vouchers to tackle (costing hundreds of thousands or even millions of pounds to serve a sparse area). The arrival of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) based satellite<\/a> broadband services, such as Starlink<\/a>, does help, but the monthly fees for that are still too expensive for many homes to view it as “affordable<\/em>” (it would need to be nearer the \u00a330 – \u00a345 mark). The other catch being that Starlink<\/a> wasn’t available to the majority of Scotland until late 2022, and it still doesn’t reach some parts of northern Shetland today.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, we\u2019re still waiting to hear how Project Gigabit\u2019s funding for Scotland (aka \u2013 Lot 39) will be handled, although the Building Digital UK<\/a> (BDUK) programme has warned that the final 0.3% of the UK (i.e. under 100,000 premises) may be too expensive for even that project to reach with full fibre (a lot of that will be in Scotland). A range of alternative proposals for this are currently still being examined (here<\/a>) and trialled (here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Ivan McKee said:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“The Scottish Government<\/a> continues to work closely with the United Kingdom Government to shape what project gigabit will look like in Scotland. To date, we have secured \u00a328.5 million of funding, which is being used to enhance and extend R100 contract coverage across rural Scotland.<\/p>\n

The UK Government has not provided a Scotland-wide allocation of project gigabit funding that would allow things to move forward at maximum pace. We should also recognise that that \u00a328.5 million is out of a total of \u00a31.2 billion confirmed by the UK Government, which is out of a total of \u00a35 billion that it originally committed to that programme.<\/p>\n

In the weeks ahead, we will engage with broadband infrastructure providers to understand their current and future gigabit delivery plans and to gauge their level of interest in bidding for new broadband contracts in Scotland. It is vital that the UK Government commits a level of funding that will extend gigabit connectivity to Scotland\u2019s rural and island communities, as well as urban and semi-urban areas, to ensure that no one is left behind.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The longer it takes to decide how to handle the allocation of new funding from Project Gigabit, the longer it will take Scotland to deliver gigabit-capable coverage nationwide. At the end of last year around 66.80% of Scotland already had access to a gigabit-capable broadband connection, so there’s still a long way to go and most of the current build has come from commercial deployments. But.. politics.<\/p>\n

NOTE:<\/strong> The average cost to connect premises under R100 was recently revealed to be \u00a35,690 by Audit Scotland (here<\/a>).<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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