{"id":4152,"date":"2013-09-20T10:46:25","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T09:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=4152"},"modified":"2013-09-20T10:46:25","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T09:46:25","slug":"trouble-altnets-uk-village-gets-annoyed-lack-broadband-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/09\/trouble-altnets-uk-village-gets-annoyed-lack-broadband-choice.html","title":{"rendered":"Trouble for Altnets as UK Village Gets Annoyed by Lack of Broadband Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Altnet schemes are often praised for bringing faster broadband into areas that previously could not receive a good service. But what happens when their performance suffers and residents feel trapped by a lack of ISP choice. Could the situation with Rutland Telecom in Essendine (Lincolnshire, England) be a harbinger of things to come?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Back in 2010 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rutlandtelecom.co.uk\/\" target=\"new\" rel=\"nofollow\">Rutland Telecom<\/a>, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/gigaclear\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Gigaclear<\/a> ISP, announced that the small rural village of <b>Essendine <\/b>would soon become the next to benefit from its &#8220;<i>super-fast<\/i>&#8221; unbundled (SLU) up to 40Mbps <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttc\">FTTC<\/a> broadband service (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/story\/2010\/09\/30\/rural-uk-village-of-essendine-to-gain-40mb-broadband-from-isp-rutland-telecom.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>), which offered speeds that would be well above the previous best of 0.5Mbps via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a>&#8217;s platform. The service went live and everybody seemed happy.<\/p>\n<p>But Rutland Telecom&#8217;s investment also meant that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rutland.gov.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Rutland County Council<\/a> (RCC) had to exclude Essendine from its \u00a33m state aid supported <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/07\/bt-begin-3m-state-aid-bduk-superfast-broadband-rollout-in-rutland-uk.html\" target=\"_blank\">Digital Rutland<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/bduk\" target=\"_blank\">Broadband Delivery UK<\/a> scheme, which isn&#8217;t allowed to overbuild an existing &#8220;<em>superfast<\/em>&#8221; fixed line service by using state aid money. Now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/thinkbroadband\" target=\"_blank\">Thinkbroadband<\/a> has spotted a council statement from May 2013, which claims that &#8220;<em>there is much disquiet within the village<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/essendine.leicestershireparishcouncils.org\/parish-news.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Essendine Parish Council &#8211; May 2013<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Essendine Parish Council deplores this decision [to exclude Essendine] \u2013 we consider this to be discriminatory and contrary to the &#8220;competition&#8221; mantra, giving Rutland Telecom a virtual monopoly. British Telecom currently has no plans to extend its Broadband coverage to Essendine, and Rutland Telecom seems reluctant to share its cabinet with other UK ISPs.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This leaves Essendine few alternatives other than to lobby other ISPs, Rutland Telecom themselves, and to take the matter up direct with BDUK and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a> &#8230; Rest assured that the Parish Council will fight this injustice vigorously, and appreciates the wholehearted support which residents have already expressed.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Strong stuff and no doubt a concern for other Altnets, especially those that will be looking to spend a significant amount of their own <strong>private investment<\/strong>. The irony of a village also using a similar &#8220;<em>monopoly<\/em>&#8221; argument against a smaller altnet provider, that&#8217;s often levelled against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a>&#8217;s dominant use of state aid funding through BDUK, is surely not going to be lost.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s presently unclear precisely why, other than the lack of ISP choice, locals are so riled up about Rutland Telecom&#8217;s service but another new community led rural broadband project for South Lincolnshire, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fibrelincs.org.uk\/category\/villages\/essendine\/\" target=\"_blank\">FibreLincs<\/a>, suggests that the Rutland Telecom may have been suffering from some &#8220;<em>ongoing service issues<\/em>&#8221; (e.g. slow speeds perhaps?).<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that Rutland Telecom appears confident that they can resolve the local service issues within the next couple of months. But in the meantime it&#8217;s a situation that other altnets could face going forward. On the other hand we should remember that Essendine does still have a choice, locals could go back to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a>&#8217;s much slower network, but it would be a tricky switch.<\/p>\n<p>Rutland Telecom&#8217;s parent company, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/gigaclear\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Gigaclear<\/a>, has also recently partnered up to adopt <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fluidata.co.uk\/\" target=\"_new\">Fluidata<\/a>\u2019s <em>Service Exchange Platform<\/em> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fluidata.co.uk\/solutions\/sep\/\" target=\"_blank\">SEP<\/a>) that should give those covered by the operators network a greater choice of around 50 ISPs. But it&#8217;s unclear whether or not this extends to the service in Essendine or how much choice people really get.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Altnet schemes are often praised for bringing faster broadband into areas that previously could not receive a good service. But what happens when their performance suffers and residents feel trapped by a lack of ISP choice. 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