Stakeholder Event

6 – 8pm Tuesday 6 July 2016

Welcome &

Introductions

Cllr. Blake Pain Lead Member for Broadband

1) BT’s Fibre Rollout

2) Contract 1 Update

3) Contract 2 Deployment Plans

4) Better Broadband Scheme

5) Additional Funding

6) New Technology

7) Q&A session

BT’s UK fibre broadband roll-out

No other company in the world is investing as much in

fibre without public sector support or a regulatory regime that allows for far greater returns

£3bn to bring fibre to around two-thirds of UK

Today, more than 24 million homes and businesses passed

Around 8000 engineers working on the “Big Build”

A mixture of fibre to the cabinet (FTTC) and fibre to the premises technology (FTTP)

Fibre to the remote Node (FTTrN) – successfully trialled and now being deployed

FTTP “on demand” now available in some areas

More than 140 service providers currently trialling or selling fibre services using BT’s network

Extending fibre broadband availability even further through local community projects ‘ Community Fibre Partnership’

The Superfast Leicestershire Journey

More than

292,000 homes

and business

connected

-£18.9m contract

- 62,000 perms

- £1.1m from

districts

contributing to

around 5,000

THP

£9.1m

contribution form

BT

- £9.1m County

Contract

- 11,000 prems

- £2.26m of this

is contribution

form BT

- New Leicester

City phase

- £2.2m from

LLEP LGF

- £2.8m

contribution

from BT

- 9,000 City

prems

The Final 4%

Further Funding

BT Commercial Contract 1

By March 15

Contract 2

By December 17

Going Further

96% SFBB

How we do it…

A full assessment

of the existing

network to provide

accurate

information for our

engineers.

Agree and plan

when the new

equipment will be

placed inside the

exchange. Every

exchange is

different.

Surveying

underground

ducts and

planning where

the new fibre,

street cabinets

and over ground

equipment will go.

We are meeting

with the Highways

and Planning

teams.

Building the new

network from the

exchange to the

new street

cabinets.

Pre-planning Preparing the

exchange

Planning the

network

Installation

Contract 1 Update

Over 200 miles of new fibre currently

rolled out

71 exchange areas now live

307 fibre cabinets enabled

65,000 additional Leicestershire

homes and businesses are now able

to connect to fibre broadband

235 towns and villages have

gained access to fibre broadband

thanks to Superfast Leicestershire.

This increases superfast coverage

from 81% to 92%, and we remain

on target to reach 96% by the end

of 2017

2011 Government announce

Leicestershire’s allocation from

£530m of national funding

County Council puts forward and

secures additional funding from

EU (ERDF) District, Borough and

City Councils

Following extensive procurement

exercise, contract awarded to BT

(August 2013)

First cabinet went live in July

2014

We bring choice and low prices

Our open network brings competition, choice & low prices

Contract 2 Plans

Contract signed March 2015

Originally County build area only. Now includes a £5m

City area build phase (LLEP and BT funded)

Now over £33m invested including £4m from LCC and

£8m from government (BDUK)

Mainly FTTC, but will also involve FFTP in rural areas

were more cost effective than FTTC

Will increase coverage from 92% to over 96%

First cabinet went live in April 2016. First areas to benefit include: Coalville, Desford,

Redmile, Castle Donnington, Hugglescote, Wigston, Barwell, Glenfield, Hathern,

Loughborough, Ellistown, Kegworth, Medbourne, Melton Mowbray, Thringstone, Bilstone,

Atherstone, Barton on the Wolds and Stoney Stanton

Contract 2 Progress Around 100 surveys have been

completed to date

35 cabinets are already live and

receiving orders, serving over

2,000 premises

Survey work completed on the first

60 miles of new fibre cabling

Over 400 structures

planned, most of which are

green roadside fibre

cabinets. However, some

will be new technologies not

previous used, such as

Fibre to the Premise and

Fibre to the Remote Node.

Average of more than 6 new

cabinets a month in

Contract 2 so far, which is

set to increase over the

coming months Legend

Contract 1 Cabinets

Contract 2 Cabinets

Better Broadband Scheme (1)

Network

Operations

Centre

Modem

Internet

backbone Satellite

dish

VOIP Devices

Download Speeds

10-24 Mbps

The Satellite connection

is provided by two

operators, Avanti and

Eutelsat. They provide

wholesale access to 11

RSPs on the scheme,

each offering different

product ranges: e.g.

download speed limits

and usage caps at

different prices

Upload Speeds

2-6 Mbps

RS

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pro

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eq

uip

me

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Internet

Better Broadband Scheme (2)

Fibre Cable

Backhaul

Wireless signal

Available from June 2016 locally

Download speeds: 20-100Mbps

Typical product offers: 10-30Mbps

Five providers:

Maximum contract length is 24 months

Maximum yearly cost is £400

Around 3,000 properties eligible

Scheme open until end of January 2018

Services available until end of December 2022

Summer 2016 scheme relaunch

Public Consultation

Identify areas

Identify priorities:

1) Community

completion

2) Rural areas

Instruct BT

BT model new

phase of build

Contract 1 delivered

on time and under

budget

Significant

underspend amount

will become

available

Council committed

to reinvesting

Will seek to invest

£2m - £3m late

2016 / early 2017

New commercial

deployments

Seek additional

funding support

from District and

Borough Councils

Investigate all future

funding

opportunities

Advise community

groups seeking their

own solution

Gainshare funding

(Take-up over 30%)

Potential further

funding

Other providers

The Final 4%

Other Commercial Providers

Fixed fibre for business parks (FTTC)

Primarily in City area with expansion

plans for Great Central Ind. Estate, Northgate Ind.

Estate and Frog Island Ind. Estate, amongst others

New coverage or additional choice for customers

Project Lightening -

£3bn investment

Demand led – Cable

my Street

Ratby and Broughton

Astley

New wireless provider

(January 2016)

Covering significant

areas of east

Harborough

Offer 30Mbps download

Significant coverage and plans

in Welland Valley area

FTTP on demand

led basis

Wireless provider

Covering Buckminster

estate and surrounding

area

New Technology

Consumers

FTTP

G.fast

• >11m homes passed by 2020 through mix of G.fast and FTTP

• Continue G.fast trials

• Pilot G.fast at 25,000 homes in 16/17, with proposed future

specification in Cherry Hinton, Cambridgeshire and Gillingham,

Kent

• Ready for commercial deployment in 17/18 (subject to regulatory

certainty)

More FTTP

• Ambition to increase mix of FTTP in ultrafast roll out

• Continue trials to improve cost to deploy and customer

experience

• FTTP for new build homes, rural areas, apartment blocks,

businesses and where it makes sense

FTTP

For business

• Up to 1m to have ultrafast available by 2020 including

Business FTTP in high streets and business parks

Our network is open and future proof…

Questions?

Contact Details:

Email: broadband@leics.gov.uk

Twitter: @LeicsCountyHall

Website: www.superfastleicestershire.org.uk