Reaching the last 10% - how can Local Government achieve 100% connectivity? The Solution – Three Case Studies iNorthumberland - presented by Steve Bluff, Managing Director, Ourbroadband For more information: http://www.techuk.org/events/conference/item/826-reaching-the-last-5-how-the-uk-achieves-100-connectivity All Rights Reserved

1. Northumberland

2. Northumberland
• Population: 316,300
• Lowest population density in England at
63/SqKm
• Large upland areas and national parks
• Most of the population is clustered around
“South East cluster”, A1 and A69

3. Open Market Review
• The OMR confirmed
where Superfast
coverage will be in
the next three years
• Covers main
population centres

4. Planned BDUK round 1 coverage
• Even after the BDUK round 1
activities a large number of
premises not covered
• Drawn from iNorthumberland
web site
“Under evaluation”

5. Solution Options
• Fibre
• Fixed Wireless Access (FWA)
• Satellite

6. Solution Options
Fibre
• Price per premises passed not viable going fwd
FWA
• Cost effective coverage beyond the fibre zone
Satellite
• Ultimately solutions for premises beyond FWA zone

7. Financing Options
There is a mix of ways to achieve coverage to
those areas not covered by round 1 of BDUK
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More BDUK
Defra
Loan Scheme(s)
Other funding

8. Financing Options
More BDUK
• Next round £250m
• £650k allocated to Northumberland
• What can you do with £650k?? = less than 0.5%
of the population using traditional fibre
deployments
• Should an “outside in” model be the preferred
route

9. Financing Options
Defra
• Original UK wide fund circa £20m
• Only one scheme deployed to date
– Rothbury
• In Northumberland used to cover national parks, uplands,
non urban areas
• Round 2 awarded, options for Rounds 3+
• Around £19m left in the UK pot
• Must be spent by March 2015
• Can it be accessed in time?

10. Financing Options
Loan Scheme(s)
• Underwritten by local authority
• Offers the opportunity to assist commercial
investments/deployments
• Not state aid, done on a purely commercial loan basis
• Useful to assist in cash flow of areas outside BDUK but
not in Defra
• An option in the current financial climate??

11. Financing Options
Other EU funding?
• Update this week
Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEP)
• Very time intensive
Other BDUK
• £10m fund
Big Lottery Fund
• Supporting other bids

13. Planned BDUK round 1 coverage
• Drawn from iNorthumberland
web site
• Even after the BDUK round 1
activities a large number of
premises not covered
“Under evaluation”