{"id":37268,"date":"2024-02-22T00:01:37","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T00:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=37268"},"modified":"2024-02-22T11:33:25","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T11:33:25","slug":"gov-funding-brings-gigabit-broadband-to-1-million-uk-premises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/02\/gov-funding-brings-gigabit-broadband-to-1-million-uk-premises.html","title":{"rendered":"Gov Funding Brings Gigabit Broadband to 1 Million UK Premises UPDATE2"},"content":{"rendered":"

The UK Government has announced that public subsidy via both the past c.\u00a32.54bn Superfast Broadband (SFBB) and current \u00a35bn Project Gigabit<\/a> roll-out schemes has, since August 2012, helped to expand gigabit-speed network coverage to 1,006,800 additional homes and businesses. A number of new satellite<\/a> “Alpha Trials<\/em>” have also launched.<\/p>\n

Just to give all of this the proper context. The SFBB<\/strong> programme \u2013 managed by the Building Digital UK<\/a> agency \u2013 was first setup back in 2010 to help extend “superfast broadband<\/em>” (24-30Mbps+<\/strong>) connectivity to areas that were not expected to benefit from commercial deployments anytime soon (note: commercial coverage of \u201csuperfast<\/em>\u201d lines reached c.76% and SFBB helped to go beyond that toward 98% today).<\/p>\n

NOTE:<\/strong> Ofcom<\/a>’s modelling predicts that UK gigabit broadband coverage (currently 80%+<\/a>) will reach around 84% by May 2024, then 91% by May 2025 and 94% by May 2026 (here<\/a>).<\/div>\n

Most of the services deployed under the SFBB programme were hybrid-fibre (e.g. Openreach<\/a>’s VDSL2<\/a> based FTTC<\/a> lines) and fixed-wireless access (FWA) based networks – from various operators. But in the final years the SFBB scheme also managed to deliver hundreds of thousands of additional premises using gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises<\/strong> (FTTP<\/a>) technology, which is where much of today’s total comes from.<\/p>\n

The SFBB programme has in the past 2-3 years been superseded by the government’s new \u00a35bn Project Gigabit <\/strong>scheme, which lifts the performance target to 1000Mbps (200Mbps on uploads) and focuses most of its effort on helping to upgrade the “hardest-to-reach<\/em>” (final 20% of mostly rural) UK premises. The goal is to extend 1Gbps coverage to at least 85% of UK premises by the end of 2025 and then \u201cnationwide<\/em>\u201d coverage (c. 99%) by around 2030 (here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

The combination of both programmes has thus helped to deliver today’s total of 1,006,800 additional premises<\/strong> with access to gigabit broadband speeds (including 68,800 in Scotland, 108,800 in Wales and 118,900 in Northern Ireland – the rest are from England). But it should be said that Project Gigabit itself hasn’t yet been running long enough to have much of an impact upon this total.<\/p>\n

The total also includes 5,300 public buildings<\/strong> (e.g. schools, libraries, hospitals, police stations, council offices and more).<\/p>\n

Michelle Donelan, Technology Secretary, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cAchieving a million gigabit-ready premises shows our plan to turbocharge British broadband is working. Thanks to our investment, rural communities held back by achingly slow internet can now tap into the best speeds on the market.<\/p>\n

The UK is rolling out gigabit networks faster than any country in the EU, with 8 in 10 premises now able to access upgrades. It is a track record that shows we are rapidly building the infrastructure Britain needs to improve lives and grow the economy.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The announcement notes that over \u00a31.1 billion<\/strong> has already been signed in Project Gigabit contracts to connect more than 700,000 premises in England, from Northumberland, Durham and Cumbria to Cornwall, Norfolk and Suffolk over the coming years, so that 1m total of covered premises is set to grow.<\/p>\n

Speaking of which, today also brings news of more than \u00a377m worth of Project Gigabit contracts being signed to connect around 32,400 rural premises across Gloucestershire, West and parts of North Yorkshire. But we’ll cover those in a separate article.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s announcement also comes as the Government outlines details of UKRI\u2019s \u00a370m Future Telecoms Programme<\/a>, funded through the UKRI Technology Missions Fund and supporting one of five critical technologies, which will see 16 UK projects share \u00a322m to support development and commercialisation of cutting-edge tech solutions and lay the groundwork for the networks of the future.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, \u00a340m will provide further support for three existing Future Telecoms Research Hubs – led by Imperial College London, Oxford, and Cambridge Universities – alongside the creation of a dedicated national infrastructure for future telecoms testing and development linked to the UK National Dark Fibre – to support research in 6G, developing new architectures and networks for end-to-end connectivity, embedding AI and computing and developing wireless access systems such as cell-free networks and optical wireless integration.<\/p>\n

Finally, the UK is also delivering high-speed, reliable connectivity to some of our very hardest to reach locations using satellite<\/a> connectivity through the \u2018Very Hard to Reach Alpha Trials<\/a><\/strong>\u2019. These trials are testing the extent to which Low Earth Orbit<\/strong> (LEO) satellites can be used to deliver faster low latency broadband connections to areas which are typically beyond the building capability of most fixed-line ISPs.<\/p>\n

A range of sites are already benefiting from LEO based satellite<\/a> broadband connections, including at Rievaulx Abbey in North Yorkshire, mountain rescue teams based in the Eryri National Park, and Papa Stour on the Shetland Islands. Today those have been joined by the Housesteads Roman Fort at Hadrian\u2019s Wall<\/strong> and two sites in Norfolk<\/strong> – wildlife haven Blakeney Point and English Heritage site Grimes Graves.<\/p>\n

A total of 11 Alpha Trials schemes have now been launched across the country, as part of previous commitments to deploy between 12 and 15 sites. Connectivity solutions from the likes of OneWeb<\/a> and Starlink<\/a> are involved in these.<\/p>\n

UPDATE 7:44am<\/strong><\/p>\n

BDUK has published a useful breakdown<\/a> of the 1 million premises passed figure, which confirms that 746,500 came from the SFBB programme, then 250,800 from voucher schemes and that leaves just 4,300 from Project Gigabit’s subsidised contracts. Finally, there’s also the 5,300 premises under the GigaHubs programme, but that’s not quite the same thing as those are typically dark fibre \/ leased line style connections to public sector sites.<\/p>\n

The total can also be split regionally as follows:<\/p>\n

England 710,200
\nNorth East 23,000
\nNorth West 51,500
\nYorkshire and the Humber 66,500
\nEast Midlands 81,000
\nWest Midlands 66,400
\nEast of England 141,100
\nLondon 9,200
\nSouth East 148,900
\nSouth West 122,500
\nNorthern Ireland 118,900
\nScotland 68,800
\nWales 108,800<\/p>\n

UPDATE 11:30am<\/strong><\/p>\n

We’ve just been given a list of the 16 projects involved in the aforementioned \u00a370m Future Telecoms Programme<\/a>, which will support the development of technologies that will be crucial to future telecoms networks, such as 6G.<\/p>\n

Future Telecommunications Challenge competition projects<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Project Lead<\/strong><\/td>\nTitle<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Finchetto Ltd<\/td>\nThe world’s first all-optical network switch for ultra-low power, ultra-low latency for future telecommunications networks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Purelifi Ltd<\/td>\nEnergy Efficient LiFi Module for 6G Applications<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
University of Surrey<\/td>\nDesign and Implementation of Swept Beam Antennas for Coverage and Cell-Edge Capacity Enhancement for Next Generation Cellular Networks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Novocomms Ltd<\/td>\nDevelopment of the next generation of rapidly deployable fixed wire access solution to address high speed network connectivity challenges.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fraunhofer UK Research Ltd<\/td>\nMIST – Mid-Infrared Free-Space Telecommunications<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Satcase Ltd<\/td>\nDevelopment of Microwave Backhaul  Link alignment solutions<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
University of Surrey<\/td>\nNL-COMM: Practical, Non-Linear Processing for High Performing Communications<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nephelie Technologies Ltd<\/td>\nnCOMM+: A multi-access wireless network for volumetric video<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vector Photonics Ltd<\/td>\nFRONTIERS (FRee space optical cOmmuNicaTIons Enhanced thRough pcSels)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Blu Wireless Technology Ltd<\/td>\nHigh Gain mmWave for Wireless Back Haul for Transport Applications<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Weaver Labs Ltd<\/td>\nProject Arana<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pangolin Industries Ltd<\/td>\nVOLTAIRE – aValanche photodiodes OpticaL Time domAIn ReflEctometry<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nquiringminds Ltd<\/td>\nContinuously Assured Heterogeneous Networking (CAHN)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Alter Technology Tuv Nord UK Ltd<\/td>\nCAPTIVATE – Co-packaged Optical Transceiver for Space Telecommunications<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Archangel Lightworks Ltd<\/td>\nProject Illuminate – Connecting Space and Ground Optical Communication Networks for Massive Data Throughput<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Umbra Systems Ltd<\/td>\nSecure distributed edge storage to minimise network traffic<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Future Telecommunications Hubs<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Hub Lead<\/strong><\/td>\nTitle<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
University of Cambridge<\/td>\nPlatform Driving The Ultimate Connectivity<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
University of Oxford<\/td>\nFuture communications hub in all-spectrum connectivity<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Imperial College London<\/td>\nCHEDDAR: Communications Hub For Empowering Distributed ClouD Computing Applications And Research<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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