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Several years have now passed since UK ISP WeFibre<\/a> (Telcom Group<\/a>) announced its plan to “aggressively<\/em>” deploy a gigabit-capable full fibre broadband network across rural parts of Northumberland, Cumbria, North West England, and Central and North Wales (here<\/a>). But some projects in Wales have now been told that the work will not proceed.<\/p>\n

The original roll-out plan – backed by investment from Gresham House – was full of ambition and, at one point, even spoke of a very aspirational goal to cover 1 million UK premises<\/strong> with their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP<\/a>) network by the end of 2023 (here<\/a>). But since 2021 we’ve seen very little in the way of progress updates from WeFibre, although the operator has not been standing still.<\/p>\n

NOTE:<\/strong> Customers tend to pay just \u00a335 per month on a 12-month term (plus \u00a349 installation) for a 900Mbps package with an included router (even less if they sign-up ahead of launch).<\/div>\n

So far as we can tell, WeFibre have already done a fair bit of building in several locations, such as Bellingham, Haydon Bridge, Acomb and Wylam in Northern England, as well as Llandovery, Llanybydder, Llanrhystud and Pontrhydfendigaid in Wales. But there may well be other locations where they’ve already gone live.<\/p>\n

However, we’ve recently begun to receive feedback from concerned residents in a number of locations around Ceredigion, many of which had long been part of planned deployments by WeFibre – often with support from the Government’s broadband voucher scheme. According to the feedback, these builds have now been unceremoniously dropped, with locals typically receiving the following email.<\/p>\n

Copy of WeFibre’s Email to Project Supporters
\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Your order has been cancelled<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hi XXXXXXXXXXX,<\/p>\n

Your recent order has been cancelled by a member of the WeFibre team.<\/p>\n

The following reason was provided for the cancellation:<\/p>\n

Sorry we have had to cancel your order, this is due to us not reaching the threshold of orders required to build out to your address, this also means the required funding could not be achieved to allow us to continue the build. Apologies for any disappointment this causes, we will send out a full explanation via email shortly. Kind regards, Neil<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Admittedly, it’s not unusual for individual voucher-based schemes to run into problems with attracting interest, but such things are usually much more isolated. In this case the feedback was indicating that the problems were impacting a wider area (Cwrtnewydd, Llanybydder etc.).<\/p>\n

The situation was further underlined after an assistant for Ben Lake<\/strong>, the Plaid Cymru MP for Ceredigion, emailed worried residents in several areas to say: “Unfortunately, we have been informed by WeFibre that they will not be carrying out any further infrastructure and building work in most of their project areas in Ceredigion … They insist that this is due to the complexity of the build and the rising cost of connecting remote premises<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

In addition, some of the residents in WeFibre’s active build areas in Wales have noted other concerns: “I have been active from the beginning of the Broadband Upgrade Fund trying to get people to sign up and register for the vouchers, at one stage we had over 100 expressions of interest. But with the exceptionally slow build, continually missed deadlines and encroachment by Openreach<\/a>, I know a lot of people lost faith in WeFibre and didn\u2019t then finally sign up<\/em>,” said one frustrated resident.<\/p>\n

Similarly, another resident, Charles Green, said: “Over the last four years WeFibre have promised the world but in reality delivered very little, concentrating their efforts on village locations where BT<\/a> were already delivering, not the rural community who desperately need a decent connection and what these vouchers were for!<\/em>”<\/p>\n

According to data released by the government’s Building Digital UK<\/a> agency last August, as few as 70 premises in the Ceredigion constituency have claimed and received payment for a voucher through the scheme (via any operator), for a combined value of over \u00a3120,000. Suffice to say, this figure is quite low given some of the plans that had previously been made.<\/p>\n

A Spokesperson for WeFibre told ISPreview:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Where WeFibre have decided to construct networks and thus connect residential customers, these areas are under constant review and feasibility is based upon the commercial considerations of subsidiary available, the cost of build and the overall penetration of the target area which subsequently provide us with a return on investment.<\/p>\n

Within some areas we have seen an extremely low connection rate of the network so far installed. This, coupled with insufficient demand has therefore made it commercially unviable at this time to continue to add further connections, although we continue to review the position.<\/p>\n

We understand the frustration and disappointment this may cause, and we are proactively communicating with residents in the affected areas.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The rising cost of build has, over the past year, become a particularly notable problem, which has contributed to a number of build suspensions and job cuts at various UK network operators. Suffice to say that WeFibre are not immune to the current climate or its many other competitive pressures, such as the need to generate a strong level of take-up and the difficulty of raising fresh investment during a period of high interest rates.<\/p>\n

The focus will now switch to the Government’s \u00a35bn Project Gigabit broadband roll-out programme, which is understood to be including poorly served parts of the Ceredigion constituency, particularly locations south of the Aberaeron-Tregaron area, into a future call-off as part of a cross-regional framework (Type C).<\/p>\n

The idea of a Type C procurement is to appoint a single supplier to target premises (i.e. subsidise the design, build and operation of a new gigabit network) in areas where no or no appropriate market interest has been expressed before to BDUK, or areas that have been de-scoped or terminated from a prior plan.<\/p>\n

Such areas are often skipped due to being too expensive (difficult) for other, often smaller, suppliers to tackle. But the catch with a \u201csingle supplier framework<\/em>\u201d is that there may only be very few operators that could tackle such a large commitment (Openreach<\/a>, Nexfibre<\/a> etc.). On the other hand, if there are no other viable alternatives left, then the Type C approach may be the only option for some areas. The wait goes on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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