Broadband round-up

It is really tricky to get all the stuff about broadband in one place, after chasing around the web this is my summary

The EU

1 800MHz reserved for BB from 2013

2 No exclusivity time for payback of telcos new investments, but can charge proportional to investment risk

3 Co-investment partnerships in NGA

4 Local admin (e.g. Ofcom) to decide if open telcos fibre networks to rivals (unbundle)

5 CCs to coordinate digs

6 Money from EU Investment Bank, currently €2bn loans, schemes to be decided spring 2011

UK Government

1 EU Basic BB 2Mbps to all by 2013, Superfast 30 (100%)-100 (50%)Mbps "capability" by 2020

2 UK "best" 'fast by 2015, 85-90% of country

3 BDUK £530M - includes £150M/yr from BBC from 2013 to 2015, then possibility of another £150M/yr from the BBC up to 2017. Money to go to local CCs/LEPs. [Must do a spread sheet to see if I can make all this add up! Total is £830M...]

4 BT Openreach investment £2.5bn to reach 10M homes by 2012 & 2/3rd UK homes by 2015 (FTTC/40Mbps). Adding 100,000 homes/week.

Testing FTTH (100Mbps) in York, Leytonstone, Milton Keynes, London.

30,000 engineers and 50,000km of fibre!

5 DVP idea - Digital Village Pump, i.e. local Fibre exchanges (FTTC), then VDSL2 or fibre to the home - could line up with Oxfordshire CC use of its existing OCN network?

6 Mobile 800Mhz and new 2.6GHz to be available for 4G/LTE and existing 900Mhz and 1800Mhz (2G) for 3G.

7 Superfast BB could add 280,000 jobs and £18bn to GDP

UK Projects

1 South Yorks "DR" co. VDSL 20Mbps, 280km fibre, 546,000 homes + 40,000 biz, Who pays?

2 Cornwall with BT 80-90% premises, £132M project/2015 (BT + EU ERDF finding)

3 BDUK four: Cumbria, Herefordshire, North Yorkshire, Highlands & Islands, £50M each.

Are there any more?