welcome friday may 20, 2011 county hall, chichester rt hon nick herbert mp arundel & south downs

Welcome

Friday May 20, 2011County Hall, Chichester

Rt Hon Nick Herbert MPArundel & South Downs

West Sussex County Council


Louise GoldsmithLeader, West Sussex County Council

Questions to Louise Goldsmith


A community perspective


Gordon Owen CBE

Questions toGordon Owen CBE


The rural economy and community


Jeremy LeggettChief ExecutiveAction in rural Sussex (AiRS)‘The Rural Community Council for Sussex’

Connecting rural communitiesMarket failure

Poor rural broadband access is a case of fundamental market failure – regulation and intervention must be triggered in relation to the urban market offer.


Intervention and regulationA strategic framework to make use of all private and public assets to reach 90% of rural people needs to be put in place; administrative and commercially restrictive obstacles must be cleared out of the way.

The community roleAirS can facilitate communities to reach the last 10%, but only if there is a coherent financial and technical framework within which their contribution makes sense and can be sustained.

But what is the point?• Maintaining the miracle that is the new rural economy


• Removing the scandal of differential access to learning resources for young people

• Accepting the obligation on government that comes from an “it is on the web, it has been published” policy

• Re-engaging people by joining real and virtual communities, and here’s how….

www.community21.org

http://www.community21.org/

Questions to Jeremy Leggett


Break for Lunch


We will resume at 2.10pm

Welcome back



Delivering Broadband


Robert LingBroadband Delivery UK

Summary


•BDUK and UK Government objective

•BDUK Support & funding

•Superfast Broadband Pilots

•Spring 2011 funding round

•Local Broadband Plan

•Support available

BroadbandDelivery UK

BDUK and UK Government objective



• BDUK is a team within DCMS, and is responsible for achieving the UK Governments aims

• “…deliver the best superfast broadband network in Europe by 2015” - DCMS Structural Reform Plan

• By 2015 two thirds served by the private sector

• BDUK will be focused on the ‘final third’

BDUK currently has four primary goals



• To ensure this country has the best Superfast Broadband in Europe by the end of this parliament (2015).

• To ensure delivery of Standard Broadband to virtually all communities in the UK within the lifetime of this parliament (2015).

• To ensure the efficient use of funding to deliver Superfast Broadband and Standard Broadband.

• To assist other Government initiatives which are dependent upon customers ability to access Broadband based services.

Current Activity



• Developing commercial and delivery models to that best leverage the public money available ).

• Providing input into other government policy that will influence the spread of superfast broadband .

• Developing ways to provide central support to local initiatives (e.g. state aid guidance)

• Defining ‘Best in Europe’ superfast broadband.

• Superfast broadband pilots

• Selection of Spring 2011 projects

Funding available



• £530 from the TV licence fee was provided as part of the spending review to 2015. Further £150m a year in 2016 & 2017 (£300m total) may be available

• There are are sources of European funding (e.g. ERDF) to leverage funds provided by BDUK.

• Other public sector sources (Councils, DAs etc)- Given the potential economic benefits and the possibility

for enabling public service transformation, local public bodies may choose to provide additional funding for broadband projects

• There are a number of models for the use of funding – gap funding investments, revenue shares, public ownership of assets

- BDUK is investigating all possible funding models

Superfast broadband pilots



• Our aim is to use these pilots to discover exactly what needs to be done to make superfast broadband commercially viable...” – Jeremy Hunt 15th July 2010

• Locations are- North Yorkshire- Herefordshire- Highlands & Islands- Cumbria

• Very different areas and projects – each will move at its own pace

Beyond the Pilots



• Funding available as part of the Spring 2011 funding round

- Guidance for bidding into this round has been published

- 18 Bids submitted selection process now underway

- Further funding will be available later in the year

• The basis of bids for the Spring 2011 funding round and future funding will be the creation of a Local Broadband Plan

Local Broadband Plan



• Covers the whole of an area, we encourage a partnership approach

• The strategy should look at:- Transformation of services- Economic development- Links to corporate plans - Social inclusion- Existing broadband initiatives

• Demand programs will be important to deliver sustainable revenue

• Community approach will also need to be identified inc. existing networks, community approach to demand stimulation

Demand: Race Online 2012Why local authorities should support the Race Online 2012 campaign

•To achieve efficiencies/ savings by moving more services such as school applications to internet first

•To support older people to exercise more choice and control over care services and extend independence/ promote active ageing

•To increase civic participation through more opportunities for local citizens to find their voice, engage and participate

•To demonstrate strategic leadership by making the most of the kit, connectivity and support available in communities to help off liners take their first steps online

•To develop collaborations and partnerships with corporate and charity race online partners and make sure everyone is able to benefit from broadbandhttp://raceonline2012.org/get-involved

http://raceonline2012.org/get-involved

Community: ACRE• Action with Communities in Rural England is the national umbrella body of

the Rural Community Action Network (RCAN), which operates at national, regional and local level in support of rural communities across the country.

• Rural Community Action Network members are charitable local

development agencies, generally based at county level, which support and enable initiatives in rural communities.

• Your local RCAN member will be able to offer advice and support regarding community consultation in your area. They have many years experience in developing plans with communities, facilitating community action and working with others to meet the needs of rural communities.

• Please contact your local RCAN Member for advice. Details via the ACRE website acre.org.uk or call ACRE on 01285 653477

• http://www.acre.org.uk/

Community Support



www.ruralbroadband.com

• Aims to provide a national resource for individuals, communities, suppliers and government bodies that would encourage and promote the roll-out of broadband in areas of traditional market failure and in so doing bring a close to the digital divide

www.bigsocietybroadband.coop

• The Big Society Broadband project has been set up by INCA, the Plunkett Foundation and ACRE to support the development of local next generation broadband schemes.

Next steps



• Announce next wave of BDUK projects

• Work with Devolved Administrations on National plans

• Work with Local Authorities who have submitted a LBP or EOI to achieve BDUK sign-off

• Demand stimulation and registration programmes

Contact



[email protected]: ling_robertSkype: ling_robertMobile 07736181054

Please note email change

Questions toRobert Ling


Broadband: The small business view


Geoff WilliamsonVice-ChairmanFederation of Small BusinessesSurrey & West Sussex region

A fast, reliable and guaranteed broadband service is crucial for

small businesses

“In Arundel we are limited to a BT only exchange and the speed is poor. As an internet business the broadband speed is limiting my business. To get a leased line

is cost prohibitive” ArundelFriday May 20, 2011County Hall, Chichester

Small businesses have said that their priorities are access to

broadband and a higher broadband speed

“So poor I had to move to a wireless broadband provider”

Pulborough


The Government target of a minimum of 2 Mbps by 2015 is

totally inadequate. The urgent need for significantly better broadband provision for small businesses is

here and now

“No village exchange – our exchange is miles away in Storrington.

Aluminium wiring plus other wiring that dates back to the 1950s. About

700kpbs at best! Very high contention ratios” West Chiltington


There is no alternative to fibre optic but where fibre optic

solutions are not readily available the FSB urge the Government to

look at mobile solutions as a compliment to fibre

“Very, very poor. Hardly qualifies as broadband. I know people in the

middle of the African bush with better connections” Friday May 20, 2011

County Hall, Chichester

Some Statistics

90% of FSB Members in East Sussex use the internet in running their

business, of which 82% are unhappy with the speed and reliability of their internet connection,

and 13% would consider moving business

premises to an area with faster broadband.

94% feel their service providers offerings fail to match their advertising

claimsFriday May 20, 2011County Hall, Chichester

“Download speeds are adequate but upload speeds are poor. Both can

vary significantly during the course of a day” Worthing

I am on cable in Crawley. I have a download speed of up to 50 Mb but an upload speed of only 1.6 Mb,Which is 3% of the download speed.


FSB Recommendations

1 Deploy a future proof broadband

strategy where fibre to the premises is the most sustainable solution.

Where fibre optic broadband is not currently available mobile

broadband should be employed as a complimentary service


FSB Recommendations

2Make broadband provision a

universal service (a vital utility rather than an added luxury to business operations) to ensure

faster and more consistent deployment across West Sussex


FSB Recommendations

3Reinvest public money saved on digitalising Government services

into fibre optic broadband provision

“Just been offered up to 35Mb download and up to 9 Mb upload as

now have “fibre” available in Horsham. Could not ask for more!” Horsham


It’s All About Jobs!

The FSB calls on the Government to accept our recommendations to

help small businesses thrive in this digital age and create further

employment in rural areas to add further strength to a recovering

economy


“Very poor! We are about 3 miles from the centre of Chichester (a large town)

after massive amounts of time and effort we have managed to get our broadband speed from 512K to just about 1Mb. It’s

so bad we will almost certainly be moving our factory as it seems to be the only way we can get a more useable speed. As far as I am aware no upgrades are likely in

the next few years. Due to no connection at times we have to use a mobile phone

on 3G to connect our company to receive email etc. This situation for any company

is appalling for a computer technology company it’s totally unacceptable”


Questions toGeoff Williamson


The role of Coast to Capital Local Enterprise Partnership


John Peel OBEChairmanCoast to Capital LEP

Presentation – click here

Questions toJohn Peel OBE


Next Generation Access:Enabling Transformation


Bill MurphyManaging DirectorNext Generation Access, BT Group

Presentation – click here

Questions toBill Murphy


Britain’s Superfast Broadband Future


Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MPSecretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport

Questions to Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP


Discussion


Conclusion



welcome friday may 20, 2011 county hall, chichester rt hon nick herbert mp arundel & south downs

Documents

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county hall

sussex slide

chichester bduk

pm slide

chichester intervention

delivery of standard

rural sussex