{"id":4088,"date":"2013-09-11T08:10:46","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T07:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=4088"},"modified":"2013-09-11T11:18:51","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T10:18:51","slug":"bt-named-preferred-supplier-uk-isle-wight-fibre-broadband-rollout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/09\/bt-named-preferred-supplier-uk-isle-wight-fibre-broadband-rollout.html","title":{"rendered":"BT Picked as Preferred Supplier for UK Isle of Wight Fibre Broadband Rollout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite concerns the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iwight.com\" target=\"_blank\">Isle of Wight Council<\/a> (IWC) in Southern England has now voted to approve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a> as the \u201c<em>preferred supplier<\/em>\u201d for their local \u00a37.6 million rollout of superfast broadband (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttc\">FTTC<\/a>\/P), which should bring better Internet access to areas that have suffered due to a lack of investment.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The investment is intended to help around <strong>20,000 premises<\/strong> where there&#8217;s either poor broadband connectivity or no commercial plans for a future upgrade to faster services, although the recommendation (5 cabinet members in favour and 3 abstained) might still have to be debated by the full council.<\/p>\n<p>The project, which expects to complete its rollout around <strong>September 2015<\/strong>, will be funded by <strong>\u00a33.09 million<\/strong> from the government&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/bduk\" target=\"_blank\">Broadband Delivery UK<\/a> (BDUK) office, another <strong>\u00a33.09 million<\/strong> from the local council and just <strong>\u00a31.56 million<\/strong> will come from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a>. The lower level of investment from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a> allegedly reflects the limited number of premises in the project compared with other BDUK schemes.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently the project is also based around a <strong>20% take-up rate<\/strong> once the deployment is complete, which appears to include a <strong>clawback clause<\/strong> for the council should take-up exceed 20% in the 7 years following BT&#8217;s rollout (i.e. \u00a3375k would come back to the council for every 5% of take-up over the original 20%).<\/p>\n<p>In addition a report from <a href=\"http:\/\/onthewight.com\/2013\/09\/10\/isle-of-wight-rural-broadband-split-cabinet-vote-recommends-bt-to-be-selected-as-preferred-bidder\/\" target=\"_blank\">ON THE Wight<\/a> states that an amendment to the policy was tabled, which will insist that 87% of homes and businesses in the <strong>intervention area<\/strong> receive a minimum download speed of <strong>30Mbps<\/strong> and that 96% of the islands premises should benefit from a minimum of <strong>24Mbps<\/strong>. By comparison the original design called for 99% to be covered by &#8220;<em>fibre broadband<\/em>&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttc\">FTTC<\/a>\/P), with 90% of premises in the &#8220;<em>intervention area<\/em>&#8221; being told to merely expect a download speed boost of 10Mbps+ above whatever they currently get.<\/p>\n<p>The vote, which had originally been due to take place a month ago, was initially delayed due to competition fears and concern that BT&#8217;s contribution would only equate to about 24% of the total cost.. among other things (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/08\/isle-of-wight-council-delay-bduk-broadband-contract-by-2-3-months.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>); some of these issues were finally resolved last week (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/09\/uk-isle-wight-council-finally-picks-bt-superfast-broadband-plan.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>), although local operator <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wightfibre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">WightFibre<\/a> (WightCable) remain bitterly opposed and have previously accused the IWC of being \u201c<em>biased in favour of BT<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>As usual we&#8217;ll have to wait a few months before the contract is signed and only then can we be 100% sure of the final funding, coverage and speed expectations. This assumes that BT\u00a0will be\u00a0happy to accept some or all of the recent changes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite concerns the Isle of Wight Council (IWC) in Southern England has now voted to approve BT as the \u201cpreferred supplier\u201d for their local \u00a37.6 million rollout of superfast broadband (FTTC\/P), which should bring better Internet access to areas that have suffered due to a lack of investment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[474,471,55,56,69],"class_list":["post-4088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-bt","tag-bduk","tag-fttc","tag-fttp","tag-bt-openreach"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>BT Picked as Preferred Supplier for UK Isle of Wight Fibre Broadband Rollout - 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