Fibre broadband – the latest from BT

Tavistock Business Breakfast27th September 2012

Paul ColesBT Regional Programmes

BT: Connecting up the UK

• £2.5bn investment to bring superfast broadband to two-thirds of UK premises by end of 2014

• Delivering innovation – Fibre on Demand

99% of UK premises already have access to Broadband – best in Europe

11m premises passed 1m being passes each quarter

Public/Private partnerships could extend this to more than 90% of UK premises.

BT is trialling alternative solutions such as white spaces, wireless and satellite to reduce this even further

Don’t forget:• ADSL2+ ‘up to 20Mbps’ broadband to reach 90% of UK premises next Spring• 1080 Ethernet nodes and growing• 4m Wi-Fi hotspots and growing

… In an open way

Our open network brings competition, choice & low prices

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The Broadband product family

Copper – next generationUp to 24Mbit/s

Fibre to the cabinet Up to 80Mbit/s

with improved upstream rates

Fibre to the premiseUp to 100Mbit/s with improved upstream rates

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Mobile NetworkMobileUp to 7.2Mbit/s … and beyond

CopperCopper – DSLUp to 8Mbit/s

Homes/businessesExchanges

Broadband services that include exchange equipment, core networking, routing equipment and interconnection to service providers

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CommunityEngagement

It’s not all about fibre in the ground

Drive high take-up for economic and social returns

Demand Stimulation

Ensure everyone can reap the benefits

Digital Inclusion

Learn fast, plan for the future

Research & Innovation

Leave a positive lasting impact

Sustainability

Fibre: transforming small businesses

Improvingproductivity

Cost savings

Increasing competitive

edge

• Hosted & site based VoiP• Improved video conferencing reduces need for

travel• Eliminates need for rural businesses to relocate

to city based offices• Utilise more cloud computing resources

• Faster speeds• Send & receive

large files in seconds

• Improved home working capability

• Reliable service• Carry out bandwidth

hungry tasks simultaneously

• Enabling rural businesses to compete with city based competitors

• Improving web presence

• Improving customer experience

• Enabling expansion

The benefits speak for themselvesHaving super-fast broadband enables us to transmit data almost instantaneously, and that has helped us win contracts that would have been beyond our reach Paul Sherry, Director “ ”• Rural business, conducts energy assessments for building firms & councils

• Fibre connection means they can send and receive large files electronically & can compete successfully with city-based competitors more local to potential clients

• Ability to locate in their home town has kept office accommodation costs down & they can pop home for their lunch

We need to upload high quality photographs. Now it’s done all online and quickly. The business is already saving a lot of moneyJohn Paul Annett“ ”

• Specialist picture framers – rural, family business• Saving £6,000 per month in catalogue production and distribution costs• Able to increase number and quality of graphics on the website from 50 to 1000, and

starting to use YouTube to demonstrate their craftsmanship• Improving point-of-sale experience – electronic catalogues arrive while they speak on the

phone, not 30 minutes later

The benefits speak for themselvesHaving super-fast broadband has opened our eyes to new ways of promoting ourselves to customersRhiannon Fraser, Park Manager“ ”

• A family-owned holiday and retirement park in Perranarworthal, Cornwall• Experiencing broadband speeds fifty times faster than previous connection• Used to drive company accounts to the accountants in Falmouth, now they are emailed almost

instantaneously • Installing CCTV cameras over the fast, stable Wi-Fi connection. Before super-fast the only

option was the expensive alternative of digging trenches to fit hard-wired cameras• Using their new high-speed wi-fi zone to attract new customers to the site

We can now compete with the bigger guys but remain leaner and more flexibleSeamus Breslin, Design Manager“ ”• A print and design company

• Enjoying speeds 20 times faster than previous connection• Saving two hours a day from being able to download large artwork and image files in five

minutes instead of 15 minutes• No need to invest in an expensive back-up facility as can now optimise use of the cloud• Estimate savings of £7,500 a year on maintaining back-up systems, network and intranet

And finally……….Public/Private partnerships…

Commitment from the Government

By 2015

In 2010 we heard…

£830m public funding for superfast broadband in rural areas between now and 2017

Wave 1 announced : Highlands and Islands, North Yorkshire, Cumbria, Herefordshire

2011 saw… Wave 2 announced: Devon & Somerset,

Norfolk, Wiltshire, Northamptonshire & Suffolk Remaining funding allocated Wales, Cambs & Surrey have commenced procurements

“Our goal is simple: within this parliament we want Britain to have the best superfast broadband network in Europe”Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport

2012 is an important year

News from our partnerships Our latest successes

Meanwhile…

Fibre to at least 80% of Cornwall - including The Isles of Scilly

Faster broadband for 100% of premisesAvailable now to 95,000 premises 7800 customers connected22 CPs with customers connected

87% of all lines are connected to a fibre cabinet

Extensive demand stimulation programme undertaken helping achieve over 76,000 connections

Roll-out continues…

In Northern Ireland

Fibre broadband to 97% of the county’s premises by the end of 2014

Lancashire

In Cornwall & The Isles of Scilly

Fibre broadband to at least 90% of the county by end of 2013

Rutland