{"id":37968,"date":"2024-10-29T07:37:07","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T07:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=37968"},"modified":"2024-10-29T07:37:07","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T07:37:07","slug":"october-2024-progress-update-on-bts-10mbps-uk-broadband-uso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/10\/october-2024-progress-update-on-bts-10mbps-uk-broadband-uso.html","title":{"rendered":"October 2024 Progress Update on BT&#8217;s 10Mbps UK Broadband USO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK ISP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a> has published the final biannual progress update for 2024 on their delivery of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a>&#8217;s somewhat maligned 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) for broadband. The ISP has so far helped to build a USO connection to over 8,248 premises (up from 7,954 in April 2024), with 215 further builds in-progress (down from 265).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The USO is a legally-binding and industry-funded obligation that falls on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a> across the UK and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/kcom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">KCOM<\/a> in just Hull. In short, people living in areas where they can\u2019t yet receive a <strong>10Mbps<\/strong> or faster download speed, and aren\u2019t expected to be covered by such a network in the next 12-months, can <em>request<\/em> a service capable of 10Mbps+ downloads (1Mbps upload) from the aforementioned internet providers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bq2\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> For many of those extremely remote areas, the cost of a USO connection will be significantly in excess of the industry \u00a33,400 contribution (end-users have the option to pay excess costs or decline the USO solution).<\/div>\n<p>A cost sharing model also applies here, which means that the providers will \u201c<em>calculate the total excess cost of the build and divide that between the eligible premises. If that amount is below \u00a35,000 per premises (on top of the \u00a33,400), we\u2019ll automatically split the costs<\/em>\u201c. But some areas can still end up costing hundreds of thousands of pounds, even up to \u00a31-2m, and would thus find the USO route to be unviable (<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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/11\/ofcom-and-bt-adopt-changes-to-help-10mbps-broadband-uso.html\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a> states that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/04\/ofcom-spring-2024-study-gigabit-broadband-covers-24-million-uk-homes.html\">57,000 UK premises<\/a> (0.2%) currently fall into the USO gap (i.e. those outside of suitable fixed line, fixed wireless or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/4g\">4G<\/a> mobile coverage) or under 400,000 premises if you exclude wireless solutions. But the regulator was expecting this 57k to fall to around 50k by September 2024, mostly as a result of upgrades via publicly funded schemes (connection vouchers, project gigabit contracts etc.).<\/p>\n<p>Just to be clear about this. Many of those who pursue the USO option via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a> say they were offered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/4g\">4G<\/a> (mobile broadband) connections via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/eebroadband\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">EE<\/a>, but those actually considered to have been <em>delivered<\/em> under the USO itself usually get <strong>Fibre-to-the-Premises<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a>). Commercial builds of the latter have also helped to shrink the USO gap.<\/p>\n<p>The gap will continue to shrink as both commercial and subsidised builds (e.g. the Gov&#8217;s \u00a35bn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2022\/08\/gov-issue-summer-2022-update-on-uk-project-gigabit-broadband-rollout.html\"><strong>Project Gigabit<\/strong><\/a> programme) expand. The government are also still exploring how best to reach those who live in \u201c<em>Very Hard to Reach<\/em>\u201d areas even faster speeds \u2013 roughly equating to the same sort of area as the USO is focused upon \u2013 and at the same time they\u2019re preparing to review the USO itself (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2023\/10\/gov-to-review-uk-rural-broadband-options-and-10mbps-uso.html\">here<\/a>), which could lead to changes. But this work may have been delayed a bit by the recent change in government.<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>BT&#8217;s October 2024 USO Report<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The latest statistics continued to show that the delivery of USO connections is slow (e.g. a year and a half ago there were 2,000 builds in progress, which fell to 800 in Apr 2023, then 185 in Oct 2023, 265 in April 2024 and now 215). We suspect this may be a combination of factors, such as a lack of consumer familiarity with the USO (<a class=\"shortlink shortlink-148 shortlink-chref\" title=\"bt broadband uso\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/btuso\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-chref=\"https:\/\/www.bt.com\/broadband\/USO\"><strong>apply for it here<\/strong><\/a>) and the fact that the policy may be running into the limitations of economically viable deliverability.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none\" style=\"padding:0px;width:100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/gallery\/2024-article-illustrations\/BT-Broadband-USO-Progress-October-2024.png\" alt=\"BT-Broadband-USO-Progress-October-2024\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK ISP BT has published the final biannual progress update for 2024 on their delivery of Ofcom&#8217;s somewhat maligned 10Mbps Universal Service Obligation (USO) for broadband. The ISP has so far helped to build a USO connection to over 8,248 premises (up from 7,954 in April 2024), with 215 further builds in-progress (down from 265).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[61,474,56,414,36,69,38,89,537,71,476],"class_list":["post-37968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-4g","tag-bt","tag-fttp","tag-northern-ireland","tag-ofcom-regulation","tag-bt-openreach","tag-politics","tag-scotland","tag-uso","tag-wales","tag-wifi"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@ispreview\/113389571058676206","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>October 2024 Progress Update on BT&#039;s 10Mbps UK Broadband USO - 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