1) The Local Full Fibre Networks Programme aims to stimulate investment in full fibre connectivity for homes, businesses, and 5G masts in the UK. It has provided £290 million in funding through various mechanisms. 2) The funding mechanisms include a challenge fund that provided £95 million to 13 projects, public sector building upgrades, asset reuse agreements, and broadband vouchers. 3) Future phases include a project pipeline (formerly called "Wave 3") to provide additional funding on a competitive basis to local areas with strategic plans that meet national objectives.

1. Are
you
ready?
Local Full Fibre Networks Programme
Justin Leese, Programme Director, Local Full Fibre Networks, DCMS

2. Full Fibre Current UK Situation
UK Full Fibre Penetration (FTTP / FTTH) = 3.81%*
*Source: ThinkBroadband 29/6/18
https://labs.thinkbroadband.com/local/
Superfast UK (>24 Mbps): 95.30%*
Superfast EU (>30 Mbps): 94.98%*

3. Why Local Full Fibre Networks?
Traffic Growth Video On Demand Cloud Services
5G / Gigabit Radio Backhaul Reliability Explosion of IoT Devices

4. Government Interventions
More
Fibre
Local
Full Fibre
Networks
£400m Digital
Infrastructure
Investment Fund
(DIIF)
Reducing
Regulation
Business Rates
Relief
Favourable market
Increasing financial capacity Lowering costs
Helping industry to do more
Barrier
Busting
5G Testbeds &
Trials
Increasing demand
National Productivity Improvement Fund (NPIF) £740m Future
Telecoms
Infrastructure
Review
Next Steps

5. Local Full Fibre Networks Programme
• Stimulate the telecoms market to invest in more fibre connectivity for homes, businesses and 5G masts.
Working with Local Bodies and Suppliers to aggregate demand for Gigabit connectivity to the Public and
Private Sector Buildings and Residential Group Schemes
• £290m of NPIF funding announced since November 2017:
• Wave1 projects - underway to test 4 different delivery mechanisms (£10.4m)
• Wave2 projects – 13 successful bids into a Challenge Fund (£95m)
• Future Waves in planning (£95m)
• Trans-Pennine Fibre build between Manchester and York (£22.3m)
• National Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme (£67.7m)
5G Programme has drawn down £160m therefore £290m of NPIF remains – shared between LFFN and 5G
Programmes between now and March 2021

6. #1 LFFN – Public Sector Anchor Tenancy (PSAT)
Wave 1 location:
West Sussex
County Council and
its Districts
• Circa 152 Public Buildings
• Dark Fibre Network
• 30 year IRU
• Council becomes “Anchor
Tenant”

7. #2 LFFN – Public Sector Building Upgrades (PSBU)
Wave 1 location:
Department for Education
School Upgrades to fibre
• Upgrading over 100 Schools across
the UK to Full Fibre
• Working with DfE, Grids for
Learning and Individual Schools
• DfE have provided 12 ICT Advisors
to work with the DCMS team on
engaging with the schools
• A number of additional Schools
embedded within Wave2 proposals
Tranches / Description # Schools
Tranche 1 - Individual Schools 8
Tranche 2 - Individual Schools 7
Tranche 3 - Individual Schools 19
East Midlands - via EMPSN 41
Staffordshire 24
Oxfordshire 5
Wave 2 Challenge Fund TBC

8. #3 LFFN – Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme (GBVS)
https://gigabitvoucher.culture.gov.uk
/
• Voucher: £3,000 for SME/ £500 for Residential
• Over 260 suppliers registered
• £67.7m of funding
• £5m of vouchers requested
• £1.2m already installed

9. #4a LFFN – Public Sector Asset Re-use (PSAR)
Wave 1 location:
Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council (Greater Manchester)
Commercial re-use of existing Council Duct and Fibre
1st Customer: Summers Quay
Dark Fibre to support FTTP to 67 dwellings
(Social Housing Scheme)
Jigsaw Homes Group / SimplyIP / Tameside MBC

10. #4b LFFN –Public Sector Asset Re-use (PSAR)
Wave 1 location:
Network Rail
Trans Pennine
Fibre & 5G
433 fibre trunk cable alongside the rail track between Manchester and York
5G Masts at 500m-1km spacing along the route
Fibre “Meet Me” points of presence along the route
Feeds into the Manchester and Leeds Internet Exchanges

11. Wave2 – Challenge Fund
 37 bidders
 13 successful bids totalling £95.5m
• Armagh/Banbridge/Craigavon
• Belfast
• Blackpool
• Cambridgeshire
• Cardiff
• Coventry/Solihull/Warwick
• Highlands
• London
• Manchester
• Mid-Sussex
• Portsmouth
• North Yorkshire
• Wolverhampton
 2 in Northern Ireland, 1 in Scotland, 1 in Wales
 Rural as well as Urban

12. Wave2 – Challenge Fund
Applicant DCMS Funding £m Public Buildings Premises Passed Premises Addressable PSAT PSBU PSAR
Armagh City, Banbridge & Craigavon 2.4 24 543 2,026 x
Belfast City Council 11.5 96 1,468 22,724 x x
Blackpool Council 3.0 39 1,134 13,657 x x
Cambridgeshire Council 4.0 31 1,330 5,391 x x
Cardiff City Region 6.0 323 3,112 39,013 x x x
Connected London 8.5 75 9,424 83,604 x x
Coventry, Solihull & Warwickshire 5.7 408 5,487 120,418 x
Highlands 4.5 175 9,401 18,059 x
Manchester City Region 23.8 1,390 149,940 327,992 x x x
Mid Sussex 2.2 15 6,426 6,348 x x x
North Yorkshire (NYNet) 15.1 391 4,811 55,697 x
Portsmouth Council 3.9 213 6,367 50,635 x
Wolverhampton 4.9 196 9,026 46,613 x
TOTAL 95.5 3,376 208,469 792,177

13. %Rurality
Location Size
LFFN Demographics – Wave 1 & 2

14. LFFN Programme Pipeline (Formerly “Wave3”)

15. LFFN Programme Pipeline (Formerly “Wave3”)
Phase 1 Project Concept & Strategic plan
Initial submission for review & approve / review
and return for revision / Review and end
Including :
• Vision & Strategic Fit with National & Local
Objectives
• Understanding of local benefits & how they
will be achieved
• Knowledge of existing and planned local
network capabilities
• Financial budget and spending plan
• Headline project plan including resources
• State aid and Procurement compliance
• Commercial operator engagement &
procurement plan
• Evidence of local official and political
commitment
Phase 2 Evidence & Analysis
Update submission for review &
approve / review and return for
revision / Review and end
Including:
• Detailed business case
• Socio-economic benefits
realisation plan
• Agree Evaluation Approach
Phase 3 Refining & Contracting
• Grant Agreement
• Operator contract arrangements
Assessment Panel Assurance Process

16. DCMS Barrier Busting Team
Name Areas of Responsibility
Pete McDougall Head of Team Regulatory and Business Rates
Lisa Price Mobile Mobile infrastructure, ECC, Infrastructure on Government
Buildings
Tom Raynsford Streetworks Permitting, street works coordination, Lane Rental, Classification,
traffic management, Section 58
Rich Maddock Streetworks, Mobile Support for above, physical deployment/reinstatements, street
works toolkit
Mobile regulatory alignment
Jack Vail Access to property, New Builds,
Planning
Access to property/Wayleaves, Planning issues
Benjamin Bilski New Builds, Planning Support for above. Research & Outreach aound New Builds and
Retrofitting; Wayleaves Toolkit and Local Digital Capacity for
Online Portal

17. DCMS
5G Testbeds & Trials Programme

18. 5G Testbeds & Trials Programme Objectives
“UK to be a world leader in 5G so that we
can take early advantage of its potential”
● Accelerate the deployment of 5G networks
● Ensure that the UK can take early advantage of the
applications those networks can enable
● Maximise the productivity and efficiency benefits
to the UK from 5G
● Create new opportunities for UK businesses at
home and abroad, and encourage inward
investment

19. 5G Trials & Testbeds Programme
Q3 2017 Q4 2017 Q1 2018 Q2 2018 Q3 2018 Q4 2018
5G UK
Bristol, Surrey, Kings
Rail Trials
Network Rail test track MM, Trans-Pennine route
Road
5G apps and Deployment
National Cyber Security
Security of networks
UK5G Innovation Network
Cambridge Wireless,
TM Forum, KTN
Notable dates
Publication of Standards 3GPP
5G Programme - Future Phases
Showcases across various sectors
Planning underway and ongoing for Gbit connectivity on trains and rural test beds in surrounding areas from
test-bed lines
Planning underway with Highways England for Gbit connectivity on roads
National Cyber security trial in planning
Set up of UK5G funding granted to engage industry, academic/research programme
participants
Phase 1 competition
Help support the development of 5G ecosystem
Phase 1 Projects run, delivery 2019
Evaluation of Sector focus and framing of
future projects.
Connected Communities Projects
Scale projects to prove investment case and
remove barriers to rollout
EOI & Market
Engagement
UCC Project Initiation
EOI & Market
Engagement
RCC Project
Initiation

20. 5G Trials & Testbeds Programme – Phase 0

21. ● £23.8 million investment in six 5G
projects
● Wide-range of sectors
● Focused on collaboration
● Led by industry, SMEs, universities and
local authorities
● Over 90 different institutions involved
● To run from April 2018 to the end of
March 2019
5G Trials & Testbeds Programme – Phase 1

22. 5G Rural Integrated Testbed (5GRIT)
Sector: Rural, including farming and
tourism.
Location: Cumbria, Northumberland,
North Yorkshire, Lincolnshire,
Invernessshire, Perthshire) and
Monmouthshire.
Worcestershire 5G Consortium
Sector: Manufacturing and security
Location: Worcester
5G Smart Tourism
Sector: Tourism
Location: West of England, Bristol, Bath
Liverpool 5G Testbed
Sector: Healthcare in an urban setting
Location: Liverpool
AutoAir
Sector: Dense deployment, CAVs
Location: Milbrook and 5GIC
5G RuralFirst: Rural Coverage & Dynamic
Spectrum Access Testbed & Trial
Sector: Rural, agriculture and various
Location: Orkney, Shropshire, and
Somerset
5G Trials & Testbeds Programme – Phase 1 Locations

23.  Urban Connected Communities (UCC) bidding just closed
 Rural Connected Communities (RCC) bidding to open
during the Summer
● Large-scale testbeds
● Supporting trials across multiple vertical markets
● Use the latest mobile technologies to meet connectivity
needs
● Trialling new 5G services and applications
● To improve the quality of life and support local economic
development
● May include public sector, industrial, transport, healthcare
5G Connected Communities Projects (next Phase)

24. Are
you
ready?