{"id":6559,"date":"2014-04-12T07:24:18","date_gmt":"2014-04-12T06:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=6559"},"modified":"2014-04-12T07:24:18","modified_gmt":"2014-04-12T06:24:18","slug":"uk-government-reduces-minimum-grant-broadband-connection-vouchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/04\/uk-government-reduces-minimum-grant-broadband-connection-vouchers.html","title":{"rendered":"UK Government Reduces Minimum Grant for Broadband Connection Vouchers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Government\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.connectionvouchers.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Connection Vouchers<\/a> scheme, which forms part of the \u00a3150m Urban Broadband Fund (\u201c<em>Super-Connected Cities<\/em>\u201c) to help SME businesses install superfast broadband (30Mbps+), has now completed its roll-out to all <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/12\/broadband-connection-voucher-scheme-goes-live-first-uk-cities.html\" target=\"_blank\">22 cities<\/a> across the United Kingdom and reduced the minimum voucher value.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Until recently the scheme, which accounts for around \u00a3100m of the UBF, offered grants worth between <strong>\u00a3250 to \u00a33,000 +vat<\/strong> for individual premises (i.e. any SME of up to 249 employees with a turnover no greater than \u00a340 million per annum) to help them get connected to a <strong>30Mbps+<\/strong> Internet service, although eligible businesses still have to pay the VAT, line rental and any general service charges.<\/p>\n<p>However it appears as if the Government&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/department-for-business-innovation-skills\" target=\"_blank\">Department for Business, Innovation &amp; Skills<\/a> has made a couple of small-ish changes to the vouchers, which came into effect on <strong>7th April 2014<\/strong>. Firstly there&#8217;s been a reduction to the minimum value of a connection voucher from \u00a3250 to <strong>\u00a3200<\/strong>, which should help to include some cheaper connectivity solutions for the smallest businesses.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, ISPreview.co.uk understands that\u00a0the application process itself has also been simplified, thus only one quote is now needed from a registered supplier (instead of two).<\/p>\n<p>The scheme is currently still expected to run until <strong>March 2015<\/strong>, which is of course right before the next general election when Government politicians will seek to boast about any successes they can muster; assuming you can ignore how the original infrastructure development aspect of the UBF was removed over\u00a0competition concerns (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/05\/uk-accuses-europe-of-delaying-urban-broadband-funding-scheme-approval.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>Broadband Connection Vouchers<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.connectionvouchers.co.uk\/suppliers\/\">https:\/\/www.connectionvouchers.co.uk\/suppliers\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government\u2019s Connection Vouchers scheme, which forms part of the \u00a3150m Urban Broadband Fund (\u201cSuper-Connected Cities\u201c) to help SME businesses install superfast broadband (30Mbps+), has now completed its roll-out to all 22 cities across the United Kingdom and reduced the minimum voucher value.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[471,472,38],"class_list":["post-6559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-bduk","tag-business","tag-politics"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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