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B4RDS meeting Dec 15Colliton Barton

B4RDS Agenda – Dec 15

• What’s been happening since August ?• CDS’s current plans for Phase 2• The Government’s plans for Phase 3........• What should B4RDS be doing now?• Next meeting• AOB

What’s been happening since August?

• DCC Extraordinary Scrutiny meeting Sept 3 (B4RDS input supported by FSB, NFU, CLA, CSA)

• EDDC Scrutiny Meeting Nov 12 (CDS report)• DCC Place Scrutiny Meeting Nov 16 (CDS report)• EDDC Cabinet Meeting Dec 2 (Scrutiny report)• CDS Phase 2 Supplier Day Dec 4• DCC Full Council Meeting Dec 10 (Scrutiny report)• Various newspaper articles & TV/Radio interviews

Confirmed Phase 2 funding June 30 2015BDUK allocationBDUK Phase 2 alloc’n £22.75MIf fully matched £for£ £45.5MLess NP Airband con’t £4.4M*Total available for rest of Devon & Somerset £41.1MAirband Nat’l Parks contract:DCC & SCC £1.4MHoSW LEP £0.7MNat Parks Authority £0.13MWest Somerset Council £0.07MTotal match funding £2.3MAdd in BDUK funding £2.1MTotal inc BDUK funding £4.4M

Match funding raisedDCC & SCC £2.78MHoSW LEP£9.5MBath & NES DC £0.2MNorth Somerset DC £0.2MMendip DC £0.4MSedgemoor DC £0.34MSouth Somerset DC £0.64MTotal match funding £14.61MAdd in BDUK funding £19.89MTotal, inc BDUK funding £34.5MShortfall £6.6M

*Airband also put in another £485k

Connecting Devon and Somerset

Superfast Extension Programme04th December 2015

‘The biggest Digital Infrastructure build opportunity for rural communities in England’

Introducing the CDS Team• Keri Denton – Programme Director

• Phil Roberts – Programme Manager• Matt Ballard – Programme Manager

• Ken Singleton- Technical advisor• Martin Gerrish - Finance

• Sofie Francis – Communications• Iain Perkins - Procurement and Contracts

• Karen Bohan - Officer• Nathaniel Lucas – Officer

• Matt Barrow – Officer• Louise Jarman– Officer

• Katriona Lovelock Officer• Rem Noormohamed – Legal advisor

• BDUK approach to State aid is to progress a twin-track process to a flexible approach for local bodies to either:-– Pursue an ‘umbrella’ Notification: A process where the Commission examines

how the scheme conforms to the 2013 Broadband Guidelines and whether any derogations are necessary; and – as an alternative

– Support General Block Exemption Regulation II (GBER II) Article 52: For smaller schemes and projects (schemes less than €150 million or projects less than €70 million).

• GBER compliant projects do not require notification, but are subject to strict criteria regarding the deployment of broadband, in particular, requiring the provision of full open access.

• BDUK is aligning the two approaches as much as possible, incorporating recent best practice, as well as reflecting on our conversations with the Commission, to make both options as practicable as possible• E.g. balancing Commission’s expectation for smaller procuring smaller areas

with the market’s requirement for a minimum scale of network and expectation of low ‘transaction costs’

BDUK Approach to State aid

Fibre to the Premise – duct access, dark fibre, physical unbundling and bitstream.

– Fibre to the Cabinet – duct access, dark fibre, sub-loop unbundling and bitstream

– Fixed Wireless Access – mast, antennae, backhaul and bitstream

• Key principle is that access is not limited to broadband uses and that other forms of access e.g. mobile has to be provided subject to reasonableness test.

Use of GBER II

The full requirements of the Broadband Guidelines flow through toany procurements seeking to utilise GBER II as their State aid ‘approval’ route.

The key requirements for procurements under GBER II is that they will need to provide full open access and where targeted to provide NGA services:-

Coverage requirements

• Very rural; sparsely populated; difficult terrain• No large clusters of unserved premises• Spread across entire Programme Area• Probably the largest number of unserved premises

in the UK• BUT significant pent-up demand from poor speed

areas

Connecting Devon and Somerset

National Parks

Postcodes with NGA White Premises

Heat Map showing density of NGA White Premises

Average of NGA White Premises per km2

25765

0.5

Example of Possible Zones

NGA White Premises(ref Feb 15 OMR currently in revision)

19,000

14,000

15,00019,000

24,000

19,000

NGA White Premises per km2

25

11

117

12

15

Heat Map overlaid with postcode locations

Heat Map of NGA White Premises

Average of NGA White Premises per km2

25765

0.5

Predicted Geographical Coverage at the end of Phase 1 Contract

Yellow – one superfast provider Blue - no superfast provision

Questions & Answer Session

End of CDSSupplier Day slides

What will be happening over the next few months?

• Somerset FSB meeting Dec 18• Matt Warman MP, APPG “Not Spot Summit”, Jan• Ofcom report on BT Openreach, end Jan• BDUK announcement on Phase 3, Dec/Jan ?• BDUK Phase 2 state aid approval, Feb ?• CDS Phase 2 ITT publication, Feb ?• CDS Phase 2 contracts signed, June/July ?• CDS Phase 2 completion Dec 2017?• District and County Council meetings, cabinet meetings, scrutiny

meetings every month.• County Council elections, May 2017

BT Phase 1 Clawback Clause• BT Phase 1 contracts have a clawback clause which returns

money to County Councils when 20% and 40% take up is reached (because BT benefits from takeup)

• In June 2015, Vaizey & Cameron announced that £129m was now being paid back*

• Amounts already claimed: Cambridgeshire, £5.3M; Norfolk, £5.3M; Suffolk, 3.9M; Worcestershire, £3M; Cumbria 2.5M

• CDS take up is 18%, but have claimed nothing and say they will not do so until end of 2016. (It is estimated that CDS is due £9.7M now)

• * On Dec 9, BDUK said that another £100M of underspend is also due to County Councils

Phase 3 ?• Vouchers for “free” hardware from selected suppliers could

be posted to “final 5%” postcodes any day now• But CDS will not know “final 5%” postcodes until Phase 2

contracts signed (June 2016)• Satellite Internet Ltd (Astra) pilots in Priddy, Luxborough

and Simonsbath, indicate that ISP charges will be:– £25/mo for 5GB/mo– £42.50/mo for 20GB/mo – £69.99/mo for 50GB/mo

• Skype is described as being available on a “best efforts basis” (Connection speed “up to 25Mbps”)

Plus £99.95 connection fee, plus £7/mo for a VOIP channel, plus £7/mo for unlimited data transfers between 11pm & 7am

What should B4RDS be doing now?

• Lobbying (the act of attempting to influence central & local government legislators): MP’s, County Councils, District Councils

• Building and maintaining communication links with CDS, BDUK, District & County Councils

• Raising public awareness of the rural broadband issue: Newspapers, TV, Radio, parish meetings, clubs, WI etc etc.....giving people the facts.

• Challenging unwarranted positive spin• Supporting positive achievements

What should B4RDS be doing now?

• We need people to speak at Council meetings• We need people to write/email MP’s and

Councillors• We need people to write/email newspapers

and give interviews to the media• There is lots of material available to use• It is a numbers game

Next B4RDS meeting?• Soon after state aid approval is obtained and the CDS

Phase 2 ITT is published (Feb)• By Feb we should know if District Councils stand any

chance of running their own programmes• Speakers, who have agreed “in principle”

– Chris Townsend, CEO, BDUK– Matthew Hare, CEO, Gigaclear

• Make it a “fully open” meeting• Blackdown Hills AONB Parish Network may be

interested in being joint host

Any Other Business?

All slides shown this evening are available at:http://issuu.com/gglong/docs/b4rds_dec_15.pptx/1

A full set of the slides shown at the CDS Supplier Day is available at:http://issuu.com/gglong/docs/cds_sep_market_event_-_pdf/1

http://issuu.com/gglong/docs/b4rds_dec_15.pptx/1

http://issuu.com/gglong/docs/cds_sep_market_event_-_pdf/1

CDS Programme Board• Cllr. Andrew Leadbetter, Cabinet Member for Economy and Growth, Devon County

Council • Cllr David Hall, Deputy Leader, Somerset County Council • Dr Phil Norrey, Chief Executive Officer, Devon County Council (Joint Chairman) • Patrick Flaherty, Chief Executive Officer, Somerset County Council (Joint Chairman)• Dr Alan Srbljanin, Project Director, BDUK. c/o Dept of Culture Media and Sport • David Turner, Director, Development and Environment, North Somerset Council • John Wilkinson, Economic Enterprise and Business Development Manager, Bath &

NE Somerset Council• Nick Ames, Managing Director, Supacat Ltd • Paula Hewitt, Director of Environmental Management and Regeneration, Somerset

County Council • Keri Denton, Head of Economy and Enterprise, Devon County Council • Cllr John Williams – Leader, Taunton Deane Borough Council • Steve Jorden – Head of Paid Service, South Hams and West Devon District Councils

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