{"id":788,"date":"2012-05-04T14:20:25","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T13:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=788"},"modified":"2012-05-04T14:20:25","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T13:20:25","slug":"27-uk-cities-shortlisted-for-tiny-gbp50m-pot-of-ultrafast-broadband-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/05\/27-uk-cities-shortlisted-for-tiny-gbp50m-pot-of-ultrafast-broadband-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"27 UK Cities Shortlisted for Tiny GBP50m Pot of Ultrafast Broadband Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK governments <a href=\"http:\/\/www.culture.gov.uk\" target=\"_new\">Department for Culture, Media and Sport<\/a> (DCMS) has today published a <strong>shortlist of 27 smaller cities<\/strong> that will be able to bid for a slice of <strong>\u00a350 million<\/strong> in public funding, which was set aside in the recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/03\/budget-2012-confirms-final-10-uk-cities-for-100m-ultrafast-broadband-fund.html\" target=\"_blank\">2012 Budget<\/a> to help roll-out &#8220;<em>ultrafast<\/em>&#8221; fibre optic based <strong>80-100Mbps+<\/strong> (Megabits per second) broadband services.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe <strong>Urban Broadband Fund<\/strong> (UBF) has already allocated \u00a3100m to 10 of the country&#8217;s largest cities for the same reason and the situation this time around is little different, with the government needing to whittle its list of 27 cities down to a final selection of just 10.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>The DCMS Secretary of State, Jeremy Hunt MP, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>This is a fantastic opportunity for 27 cities across the country to demonstrate how they\u2019d revolutionise the way their residents and businesses get online.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>These ultrafast speeds will allow more cities in the UK to compete with the fastest in the world, bringing new opportunities for growth, the development of high tech industries and the transformation of public services<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <strong>eligibility criteria<\/strong> states cities can only bid if they have a Royal Charter and <strong>more than 45,000 homes and businesses<\/strong> (35,000+ in Northern Ireland).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Urban Broadband Fund &#8211; Smaller Cities Shortlist<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Aberdeen,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Brighton &amp; Hove,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Cambridge,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Chelmsford,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Coventry,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Derby,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Dundee,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Exeter,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Gloucester,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Kingston upon Hull,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Leicester,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Londonderry \/ Derry,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Newport,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Norwich,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Oxford,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Perth,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Peterborough,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Plymouth,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Portsmouth,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Preston,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Salford,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Southampton,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Stoke-on-Trent,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Sunderland,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Swansea,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Wolverhampton<\/em><br \/>\n<em> York<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As before the money will only be used to upgrade broadband coverage in areas &#8220;<em>not [being] served by the private sector<\/em>&#8221; (e.g. where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Media<\/a> will not go), although many often question why public money is needed in dense urban areas where the case for independent <strong>Private Sector<\/strong> investment should be significantly easier to make. We examined this in our recent article &#8211; &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/04\/lack-of-fast-broadband-is-not-just-a-problem-for-uk-rural-areas.html\" target=\"_blank\">Lack of Fast Broadband is NOT Just a Problem for UK Rural Areas<\/a>&#8216;.<\/p>\n<p>The bidding cities must produce a plan detailing their proposals. Further <strong>bidding guidance<\/strong> is expected to be published by 18th May 2012 and the government will then make a final choice before an official announcement in the <strong>Autumn Statement<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK governments Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has today published a shortlist of 27 smaller cities that will be able to bid for a slice of \u00a350 million in public funding, which was set aside in the recent 2012 Budget to help roll-out &#8220;ultrafast&#8221; fibre optic based 80-100Mbps+ (Megabits per second) broadband [&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-788","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 v27.9 - 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