Full fibre roll-out: commercial plans
Dec 22, 2022Openreach have just published a full fibre deployment map showing where they are planning to run full fibre to the premises - giving Gigabit speeds to connected premises (FTTP). It can be found on: https://www.openreach.com/fibre-broadband/where-when-building-ultrafast-full-fibre-broadband
Two things to note: the first is that this map is by exchange area and not all premises will get FTTP & secondly, the map reflects the plans for Openreach's commercial roll out only (ie they will invest their own money to make a commercial return). Not surprisingly then that the areas to be connected are those of greatest population density. In addition, Fibrus have a £200m commercial programme in Cumbria: so lots happening on the commercial front.
Although these plans
are unlikely to impact our part of the world, the Fibrus Project
Gigabit contract represents up to £108m subsidy and there are
apparently another 7 companies deploying in Cumbria or have
plans to do so. When we get the detail of where Fibrus will
deploy this subsidy, expected towards the end of January, we
will then know whether our 'not spots' will be connected as part
of Project Gigabit or we will need to go down the new, enhanced
voucher route with an available £4,500 per premise plus a likely
County Council top up. So lots to look forward to.........