Feb 6 slides v2

Welcome to Upottery Parish

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Rawridge

Smeatharpe

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Rural Broadband Public Meeting6pm February 6, 2015

• Welcome – John Cornish, Chairman, Upottery Parish Council

• Meeting Chairman – Neil Parish MP, Tiverton & Honiton

• Scene setting – Graham Long, Parish Councillor• CDS – Andrew Leadbetter, CDS Board & DCC• BT – Paul Coles, BT SW Region Partnerships Director• TDBC perspective – Ross Henley, TDBC & SCC• Question Time

It comes naturally to some!

Upottery parish in Feb 2014“under evaluation”

Upottery parish Feb 2015“Out of Programme”

Upottery parish boundary overlaid: Smeatharpe, Upottery, Rawridge all “Out of Programme”

BT Fibre To The Cabinet (FTTC)“urbancentric” broadband delivery

Copper “local loops” (e.g. Upottery & Rawridge 01404 numbers)

~300 line DSLAM Multiplexor

(green cabinet)

250V ac

EO “Exchange Only”Copper lines direct from exchange (e.g. Smeatharpe 01823 numbers)

Telephone exchange

Fibre optic cable

Junction box

Fibre to the Remote Node (FTTRn)To serve ~30 properties no mains power is required since a DC supply can be taken from one of the properties served.

Fibre cable can be slung between poles just as copper cables are.

Fibre to the Remote Node (FTTRn)To serve ~30 properties no mains power is required since a DC supply can be taken from one of the properties served.

Fibre cable can be slung between poles just as copper cables are.

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CDS Programme BoardPhil Norrey, DCC, Joint Chairman

Patrick Faherty, SCC, Joint ChairmanCllr Andrew Leadbetter, DCC

Cllr David Hall, SCCAlan Srbljanin, Project Director, BDUKDavid Turner, North Somerset Council

John Wilkinson, Bath & NE Somerset CouncilNick Ames, Heart of the South West LEP

Paula Hewitt, Director of Regeneration, SCCCharles Uzzell, Director, Places & Resources, Torbay Council

Keri Denton, Head of Economy & Enterprise, DCC(Meetings take place bi-monthly)

Phase 2 SEP “open tender schedule” Nov 13, 201413th November Supplier/Bidder Information Day20th November 2014 Advertisement in OJEU - Publish ITT

18th December 2014 Final date that Connecting Devon & Somerset will accept tender clarification questions

NOON – MONDAY12TH JANUARY 2015 Closing Date for receipt of Tenders

12th January 2015 >12th February 2015 Evaluation of Tenders and shortlisting

13th February 2015 Send out invites for presentations by shortlisted Tenderers

18,19,20 February 2015 Post tender clarification and presentation by shortlisted Tenderers

16th March 2015 Preferred supplier status recommended

16th March 2015Preferred supplier/s and unsuccessful supplier/s notified (commencement of standstill period)

16th – 31st March 2015 Due Diligence & Contract Finalisation1st April 2015 Award of Contract

Contract Commences

NB: Contract has to be in place by May 2015 in order to gain EU State Aid approval under the BDUK “Umbrella Agreement” with the EU










Contract Commences


SCRAPPED










Contract Commences


SCRAPPEDWHY?

CDS “Procurement update” January 16 2015

“........the CDS Board has agreed to use the BDUK national framework for the majority of the area......” (i.e. A “CLOSED” tender process will be used in which only BT [& Fujitsu] will be allowed to submit tenders) “.........we have decided to run an open procurement process in the Dartmoor and Exmoor National Parks.....” (i.e. An open tender process will be followed in the National Parks ONLY)..........But contract(s) still need to be in place by May 2015 in order to gain EU State Aid approval under BDUK’s umbrella agreement with Brussels

The decision to use the national framework was taken by the CDS Board on Dec 23rd

• To ‘hit the ground running’ with the second stage based on feedback from our bidder day and advice from BDUK.

• To test the market through an open procurement process for the two National Parks.

• BT will be investing its own money in the process as well.

- Andrew Leadbetter

The SEP Phase 2 programme is the “last best hope” for 90,000 properties• £22.75M from BDUK. If fully matched £ for £ locally,

making £45.5M possible• £19.167M matched “in principle” making £38M

(plus £6M Growth Deal, Jan29, 2014, making £44M)• £38M (or £44M) handed to BT will get fibre to just

about 95% by 2020 (45,000 properties left without)• The CDS Board must require their supplier (BT) to

invest in the project proportionate to their investment in Phase 1 (40%) taking the total investment to £64M making close to 100% coverage possible.

What happens in a “CLOSED” tender process where there is only one bidder?

The bidder calls the shots:• Contract, project schedule and rollout schedule are

all hidden by confidentiality clauses• No publicly reported measures of performance or

value for money.......i.e. no public accountability• The supplier has no incentive to invest in the

project and without that 45,000 properties left without

BUT..Although public money is paying BT to upgrade the network BT still get paid by users for ALL the traffic that customers then transmit over the network

100% superfast broadband coverage in West Oxfordshire

The first 100% superfast broadband connected district in the UK

100% Superfast coverage maps for West Oxfordshire

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West Oxfordshire

District

What happens if your property remains “Out of Programme” for Phase 1 AND Phase 2 ?

The government guarantees that you will get “Basic Broadband” - a minimum of 2Mbps by 2020 funded by BDUK/CDS

BUT even this will not be made available to you if a commercial, private, (e.g. fixed wireless) broadband provider, offering speeds >2Mbps signs up one customer within your 7 digit postcode area!!!

Phase 2 Intervention area (24Mbps)WHITE = No broadband infrastructure & none likely to be developed in next 3 years

GREY = One network operator ; others unlikely to appear in near future

BLACK = At least 2 network operators (none on this map)

Phase 2 “Basic Broadband” area(2Mbps minimum) – “the final 5%”

WHITE = no broadband infrastructure: eligible for 2Mbps basic broadband

GREY = BT or another provideralready offers >2Mbps so not eligible

BLACK = 24 Mbps fibre broadband to be available through CDS or a commercial provider so not eligible

Why satellite is not the answer.• High latency – the 44,000 mile round trip to the satellite makes

interactive delay 20 times that of a fibre cable• Capacity limits – each satellite can only handle a limited volume

of traffic. Users see this as caps on their broadband traffic. Fibre has no such limitations.

• Environmental impacts – weather and sunspot activity typically causes outages from 15 min to several days each year

• Latency, jitter, capacity and speed for satellite will always remain inferior to fibre

• The capacity available on a whole satellite is much smaller than that of a single fibre.

- Larry Thompson & Brian Enga: “Analysis of Satellite Based Telecommunication & Broadband Services”, FCC. November 2013

Rural Broadband Public Meeting6pm February 6, 2015

• Welcome – John Cornish, Chairman, Upottery Parish Council

• Meeting Chairman – Neil Parish MP, Tiverton & Honiton

• Scene setting – Graham Long, Parish Councillor• CDS – Andrew Leadbetter, CDS Board & DCC• BT – Paul Coles, BT SW Region Partnerships Director• TDBC perspective – Ross Henley, TDBC & SCC• Question Time

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