Superfast Broadband in North Dorset

Community Partnerships Executive North Dorset (CPEND)Friday 17th October 2014

Dugald Lockhart, Project LeadPaul Coles, Regional Director, BT Group

Grant Munn, Programme Manager, BT GroupAndrew Cadman, Senior Project Manager, OpenreachPenny 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