Amber areas (the built-up area of Burton Green): Currently under investigation. We aim to get fibre to 93% of our area, and 91% should achieve superfast speeds, which means a minimum of 24Mbps (although some areas may get much more). Once the initial investigative work is complete we will publish more detailed maps showing where superfast broadband will be deployed and will be announcing a 12-month rolling programme with quarterly updates.
White areas: We are awaiting funding to bring these up to superfast speeds. In the meantime these areas will receive the Universal Service Commitment of a minimum 2Mbps, up to 23Mbps (after which it becomes superfast). Speed achieved will depend on geography, topography and existing infrastructure. We are actively seeking additional funding to bring these areas up to at least superfast speeds.
Grey/black/hatched areas: Due for upgrade to superfast speeds by a commercial provider so outside the scope of this project.
Bringing faster broadband to our rural areas
Special Announcement February 2014
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Additional funding announced for CSW Broadband
The Government has announced that additional funding of £3.68m will be
made available to take the coverage of superfast broadband to 95% of
premises across Coventry, Solihull and Warwickshire. The funding is
conditional on being matched. The current £15.47m CSW Broadband contract
with BT will achieve superfast coverage to 91% of premises and this
funding will enable the project to procure a solution to achieve a
further 4% to coverage, which is 95% overall.
In the current economic climate it is not easy to see where the required
match funding will come from, but the CSW Broadband team have made
applications through the Coventry and Warwickshire Local Enterprise
Partnership for a total of £7.85m from the EU, and we are actively
seeking other sources of funding for this important project. We have
always said that the current project us just a stepping stone towards
the EU target of 100% coverage at 30Mbps. This funding will help to take
our superfast coverage even further.
An expression of Interest must be submitted to government by 20th March and the formal request for funding must be submitted by 30th June.
This is a big ask given that we are currently working on the rollout of
the BT contract. Work will now start on preparing for an Open Market
Review and public consultation prior to commencing a procurement
exercise to find a partner to extend the wholesale superfast network.
Questions and Answers
What will the additional money buy?
We will be procuring a partner to take the network to 95% superfast coverage.
Where will you go?
We are a long way from being able to answer that yet. As with the first
contract we will have to go through a procurement exercise and the
results of that, and the subsequent investigative works, will determine
where we go.
What about the final 5%?
We are still actively investigating any and all sources of funding to
reach the EU 2020 targets of 100% coverage at a minimum of 30Mbps –
which is higher than the current superfast speed of 24Mbps!! The
Government has already said that it will launch a £10m fund on 17th March
for pilot projects to test new ways of delivering high speed broadband.
We will work with suitable local companies in developing applications
to this fund and, if successful, in trialling the new technologies in
our area.
To see the list of ISPs visit http://www.cswbroadband.org.uk/about-broadband/alternative-providers-and-isps .
For the BT broadband availability checker visit: http://www.dslchecker.bt.com/adsl/ADSLChecker.TelephoneNumberOutput
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