{"id":481,"date":"2012-03-21T08:16:03","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T08:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=481"},"modified":"2012-03-21T08:16:03","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T08:16:03","slug":"former-bt-cto-tells-inquiry-the-uk-needs-15bn-to-do-broadband-properly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/03\/former-bt-cto-tells-inquiry-the-uk-needs-15bn-to-do-broadband-properly.html","title":{"rendered":"Former BT CTO Tells Inquiry the UK Needs \u00a315bn to do Broadband Properly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The former Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a>, <strong>Dr Peter Cochrane<\/strong>, has told a <strong>Lords Select Committee Inquiry<\/strong> into the UK governments superfast broadband strategy that the country would need to invest &#8220;<em>at least \u00a315bn<\/em>&#8221; if it wanted to upgrade the national telecoms infrastructure properly and deliver a truly fibre optic (e.g. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ftth\">FTTH<\/a>) service to everybody.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe House of Lords Select Committee on Communications Inquiry, which is being chaired by <strong>Lord Inglewood<\/strong> (<em>Conservative<\/em>), was launched last month to examine the current strategy. At present the coalition government wants 90% of people in the UK to be within reach of a superfast broadband (<strong>24Mbps+<\/strong>) service by 2015 and for us to have &#8220;<em>the best superfast broadband network in Europe<\/em>&#8221; (scored on more than just speed).<\/p>\n<p>But Cochrane, now an independent consultant, suggested that the country&#8217;s current plans were &#8220;<em>Super slow. It&#8217;s a candle, while the rest of the world is using the light bulb,<\/em>&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Dr Peter Cochrane said (<a title=\"The Guardian\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2012\/mar\/20\/broadband-bt\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian<\/a>):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>In terms of broadband, the UK is at the back of the pack. We&#8217;re beat by almost every other European country and Asia leaves us for dust. The great decline in our relative global position has saddened me over the years and we need to invest at least \u00a315bn to redress this now<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At present the government plans an <strong>investment of under \u00a31bn<\/strong> (\u00a3530m core funding + \u00a3100m Urban Broadband Fund and possibly \u00a3300m from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/bbc\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a> after 2015) into fixed line broadband ISP connectivity (not counting EU money and existing Private Sector projects, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a>&#8217;s \u00a32.5bn rollout), which is to be matched by local authorities and then the private sector.<\/p>\n<p>But Cochrane envisages his proposal of <strong>\u00a315bn<\/strong> as being able to deliver <strong>100Mbps+ fibre optic broadband<\/strong> speeds to almost everybody in the country, which is something that national telecoms operators may have to play catch-up with in the future anyway. The inquiry itself notes that &#8220;<em>consumer demand for bandwidth is growing by around 60% a year<\/em>&#8221; and expects connection speeds of <strong>1Gbps<\/strong> (Gigabits per second) to &#8220;<em>be needed<\/em>&#8221; by 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Cochrane also wants to see the market made more competitive through <strong>better regulation<\/strong> (e.g. encouraging truly unbundled fibre optic lines) and greater support for alternative network operators (ISP), which many view as being shunned by current government policy that appears to favour <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a>. In reality this inquiry, which is largely chaired by pro-government peers, isn&#8217;t likely to change the current strategy but it might influence the post-2015 policy that has yet to be set in stone.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Lords Select Committee (Communications) &#8211; Superfast Broadband Inquiry<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.parliament.uk\/business\/committees\/committees-a-z\/lords-select\/communications-committee\/inquiries\/parliament-2010\/superfast-broadband1\/\" target=\"_new\">http:\/\/www.parliament.uk\/business\/committees&#8230;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of BT, Dr Peter Cochrane, has told a Lords Select Committee Inquiry into the UK governments superfast broadband strategy that the country would need to invest &#8220;at least \u00a315bn&#8221; if it wanted to upgrade the national telecoms infrastructure properly and deliver a truly fibre optic (e.g. FTTH) service to [&hellip;]<\/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":[471,38],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-bduk","tag-politics"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - 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