Transcript superfast broadband network in Europe by 2015.

Superfast Broadband in North
Dorset
Community Partnerships Executive North Dorset (CPEND)
Friday 17th October 2014
Dugald Lockhart, Project Lead
Paul Coles, Regional Director, BT Group
Grant Munn, Programme Manager, BT Group
Andrew Cadman, Senior Project Manager, Openreach
Penny Syddall, Senior Communications Officer, SFD
Agenda
•
•
•
•
•
About the Superfast Dorset programme
Deploying the network and key learnings
Planned fibre coverage in North Dorset
How do we go further?
Engaging communities and encouraging
take up
• Questions
First, thank you!
For...
• raising awareness
• demonstrating the chronic need for
improved broadband
• contributing to the debate
• keeping the pressure on
• your patience
About the programme
Greater availability of fibre broadband
across Dorset will help achieve strategic
benefits:
•
•
•
•
drive economic growth
transform public services
deliver digital inclusion
bring new opportunities to individuals and
communities across Dorset
Superfast Dorset will
 ensure rural areas have access
 make sure our businesses grow and
prosper
 enable us to access jobs, training,
entertainment and public services better
than ever before
Investment to date
Total project: £31.75 m
• BT contribution: £12.87 m
• BDUK contribution: £9.44 m
• Dorset councils’ contribution: £9.44 m
– NDDC contribution: £742 k
• More to come
Speed and coverage
• Across the whole of Dorset,
Bournemouth and Poole, the project will
provide by the end of 2016
• 95% of premises with access to superfast
broadband (>24Mbps)
• 100% of premises with access to at least
2Mbps
Progress
• Approximately 18,000 premises across
Dorset can now access fibre broadband
for the first time
• The vast majority at speeds significantly
greater than 24Mbps
• This builds on availability provided
through the private sector rollout of fibre
broadband (Blandford, Gillingham and
Shaftesbury)
For North Dorset this means…
• Without the project 56% of premises would
be left without access to fibre broadband
• By September 2016 the project should
achieve in North Dorset:
– 90% of premises with access to superfast
broadband (at least 24Mbps)
– 100% of premises with access to at least
2Mbps
EU and UK Government
broadband ambitions
•
•
•
•
•
Basic broadband for all by 2013: basic broadband coverage for 100% of EU
citizens.
Fast broadband by 2020: broadband coverage at 30 Mbps or more for 100%
of EU citizens.
Ultra fast broadband by 2020: 50% of European households should have
subscriptions above 100Mbps.
June 2010 UK govt target :- to have “the “best” superfast broadband network
in Europe by 2015.”
August 2012 UK govt target “not just the best, but specifically the fastest
broadband of any major European country by 2015.”
Set to overtake most significant
Euro nations in 2014
Getting broadband right though
drives the economy
•
“Broadband boosts growth. 10 percentage points extra penetration means 1% to 1.5% more
GDP growth”
- Neelie Kroes, European Commission
•
“Fibre broadband could generate an annual increase in Gross Value Add (GVA) of 0.3% 0.5% per annum over 15 years” - Regeneris1
1 Source:
“Superfast broadband – boosting business and the UK economy”,
Regeneris, 2012
Deploying the network
• Implement the core
network
• Implement fibre spines
• FTTC – over 600
structures
• FTTP – independent of the
copper network
Superfast technology