Government Support for Investment in Digital Infrastructure
1. Government Support for Investment
INCA | 16 October 2019
Government Support for
Investment in Digital Infrastructure
Matt Agar
BDUK Head of Commercial, Design & Strategy
2. Government Support for Investment
INCA | 16 October 2019
Funding and support to date
2
Future Telecoms
Infrastructure Review
& “Outside In”
Long term strategy
UK Fibre Programme
Superfast
C > P
Local Full Fibre
Networks
Rural Gigabit
Connectivity
5G Testbeds
& Trials
MORE
FIBRE
Increasing
demand
Business Rates
Relief
Lowering costs
£400m Digital
Infrastructure
Investment Fund (DIIF)
Increasing financial
capacity
Favourable market
Changes to
Regulation
Barrier Busting
Speeding delivery
7. Government Support for Investment
INCA | 16 October 2019
Government choosing ‘full fibre first’…
“Our aim is for all schools to have access to
modern broadband infrastructure”
8. Government Support for Investment
INCA | 16 October 2019
…and more opportunities to achieve this
“a focus on improved transport,
broadband connectivity, skills and
culture”
10. Government Support for Investment
INCA | 16 October 2019
Possible Build Scenarios
● A possible scenario – envisaged by FTIR – is a market intervention to
address ~2m premises by 2033
● Key dates (working assumption):
1.
● Based on a standard S curve, delivery needs to ramp up to a maximum rate
of 170k premises/quarter (13k/week)
10
February 2021
1st cluster
release
November 2021
Build
commences
January 2029
Final cluster
release
January 2032
Final build
completes (inc.
contingency)