Digital Connectivity Review 2018-2019 - Connecting Cambridgeshire Digital Connectivity Strategy for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough 2018-2022
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Connecting Cambridgeshire Digital Connectivity Strategy for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough 2018-2022 Digital Connectivity Review 2018-2019
TWO Contents Foreword Digital Connectivity Overview 3 Full Fibre 4 Enabling Digital Delivery 5 James Palmer, Mayor of Cambridgeshire & Peterborough and Councillor Steve Count, Leader of Cambridgeshire County Council. Digital Connectivity Mayor of Cambridgeshire & Peterborough, Map 6&7 James Palmer I am delighted that the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority (CPCA) has already made good Superfast progress towards our commitment to delivering outstanding digital Broadband 8 connectivity that will support the growth of our local economy and improve the day to day lives of our residents. A strong mobile and broadband network together with free public access Mobile Wifi is key to enable us to remain competitive in the national and coverage 9 international marketplace. This strategy supports the Combined Authority’s commitments to double the size of the economy, deliver outstanding connectivity, make public services more responsive to Public Access people’s needs and improve people’s quality of life. Wifi 10 Cambridgeshire County Council Leader, Councillor Steve Count Smart Places 11 Cambridgeshire is a leading digital county. Fast, reliable internet access is vital for our businesses to be able to compete, for our communities to thrive, and for people to access council and health services online. Contacts 12 Digital connectivity is a ‘game changer’ so we must plan ahead to increase the availability of gigabit services for homes and businesses across the county by using public sector assets innovatively and creating conditions that make it commercially viable for full fibre rollout.
THREE Digital Connectivity Overview Cambridgeshire and Peterborough is a leading digital Cambridgeshire County Council, has been county with a bold vision for investing in future expanded to: facing connectivity to underpin the region’s growth Stimulate increased commercial investment and and prosperity, deliver public services and support facilitate faster telecoms infrastructure deployment businesses and communities. Improve mobile coverage, including preparing for A new Delivering Digital Connectivity Strategy 2018- forthcoming 5G services 2022 was launched in July 2018 to significantly improve mobile, broadband and public Wifi coverage, Increase the full fibre footprint and support whilst securing future proof full fibre and 5G digital infrastructure innovation networks. Increase the provision of public access Wifi, This Digital Connectivity Review provides an annual particularly in market towns and village halls. progress report on the work underway to achieve the The plan builds upon Connecting Cambridgeshire’s Strategy’s ambitions over the next four years. strength in delivering leading edge digital In addition to significant private sector investment, connectivity, particularly the successful rollout of the wide-ranging plans to improve the region’s digital superfast broadband. connectivity build upon funding from Cambridgeshire County Council and Peterborough City Council, Digital connectivity is now a utility, £5.6million investment from Cambridgeshire & and modern life is increasingly Peterborough Combined Authority, together with impossible without it. Connectivity drives more than £14m in Government and EU grants. productivity and innovation, and is the Digital Connectivity Programme for With Combined Authority investment, the innovative physical underpinning of a digital nation. Cambridgeshire and Peterborough 2018-2022 UK Government Digital Strategy 2017 Connecting Cambridgeshire digital programme, led by Superfast Full Fibre Mobile Public Access Smart broadband 2G - 4G - 5G Wi-Fi Programme (24mbps +) • Revised full fibre • Working with • Widespread free • Using technology target to achieve mobile operators to Wifi in public and data to develop • Phase 2 - reached 96% homes over 30% coverage improve poor buildings and open smart solutions and businesses by 2022 coverage affecting spaces • Smart Cambridge – businesses and • Phase 3 – reached • Increasing use of • Expanding Wifi Helping to tackle communities 97% early 2019 Fibre to the Premise provision in market urban challenges (FTTP) technology • Targeting better towns, village halls such as transport • Phase 4 – targeting coverage of A and B and community and air quality >99% by end 2020 • Developing fibre roads and rail buildings assets and • Smart Places routes by 2022 connecting public Initiative – buildings • Planning ahead for extending the early deployment of programme to 5G mobile services support growth of our market towns Enabling Digital Delivery • Facilitating delivery of better mobile and fibre connectivity
FOUR Full Fibre Fibre coverage in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough is Full Fibre targets above the national average having reached over 11% by May 2019. By 2022, the Connecting Cambridgeshire Revised full fibre target to achieve over programme aims to increase the county’s fibre 30% coverage by 2022 footprint by: Increasing use of Fibre to the Premise (FTTP) technology Using Fibre to the Premise (FTTP) technology Developing fibre assets and connecting to complete the superfast broadband rollout, to public buildings reach over 99% of homes and businesses. Maximising commercial investment - proactively removing barriers to telecoms infrastructure through the Enabling Digital Delivery (EDD) team. Connecting Cambridgeshire has set a challenging new target to achieve over 30% full fibre coverage across Using council assets to support better Cambridgeshire and Peterborough by 2022 to support it connectivity such as making existing fibre the county’s ambitions for digital connectivity. ducting under the Guided Busway and cycleways available on a commercial basis. The full fibre target is part of plans agreed in March 2019 by Cambridgeshire County Council, including Upgrading over 100 public buildings with full innovative use of council assets to deliver better fibre to support gigabit-capable services, in rural connectivity. areas of Huntingdonshire, East Cambridgeshire and Fenland. Full fibre networks support the fastest, most reliable internet access - capable of gigabit speeds, which are Delivering the benefits of integrating fibre future-proof and provide the backbone for 4G and ducting in all new transport infrastructure future 5G mobile services. schemes as part of leading edge Council policies. Launching an innovative joint venture between the University of Cambridge and Cambridgeshire County Council to make assets available to Our forward thinking approach to expand fibre networks, and provide a ‘neutral extending full fibre coverage aims host model’ for the region. to put the county at the forefront of the UK’s digital development and supports the The full fibre plans can be achieved within the Connecting Fibre ducting in transport infrastructure schemes Government’s ambition to reach 50% Cambridgeshire programme’s budget following successful of the country with fibre by 2025. bids for over £14m additional EU and Government Councillor Ian Bates, Chair of Cambridgeshire funding, together with over £80m private investment County Council’s Economy and Environment Committee. in full fibre networks by commercial providers. QUICKER CHEAPER LESS ECONOMIC DISRUPTION BENEFIT e ducting in transport FibreThe ducting infrastructure in transport benefits schemes of integrating fibreI NTEGRATED infrastructure schemes Fibre ducting ducting in transport in transport infrastructure infrastructure schemesschemes Fibre ducting in transport infrastructureT I schemes ME INTEGRATED RE T RO FI T RETROFITTED SLOW KER CHEAPER LESS QUICKER ECONOMICCHEAPER LESS ECONOMIC QUICKER CHEAPER LESS ECONOMIC DISRUPTION BENEFIT DISRUPTION BENEFIT DISRUPTION BENEFIT CHEAPER LESS ECONOMIC GR A TED I N T EG RA T E D QUICKER EXPENSIVE CAUSES LOST INTEGRATED COMPLEX DISRUPTION BENEFIT CONJESTION PRODUCTIVITY I N TT IEG M E RA T E D TIME O F IT RE T RO F IT TIME RE T RO FI T RE T ROF IT OW SLOW SLOW
FIVE Enabling Digital Delivery (EDD) Connecting Cambridgeshire is among the first in Your proactive engagement with the country to set up a dedicated Enabling Digital CityFibre - setting up effective Delivery (EDD) team that is proactively removing meetings - with the Cambridgeshire barriers to the rapid delivery of future proof digital Streetworks team and the University of connectivity across the county, making best use of Cambridge Granta Network, has contributed public sector assets and attracting private sector immensely to the mobilisation of our £20M investment. FTTH project in Cambridge. Launched in July 2018, the multi-faceted EDD team Patrick Haynes, City Development Manager, CityFibre is taking action to recognise and resolve the myriad issues that can hold up the delivery of fixed and mobile infrastructure. infrastructure projects (roads, footpaths, cycleways etc) to include fibre ducting in the EDD has rapidly established itself as the first ‘port of design, build and budget, and incorporated by call’ for network providers and telecoms operators, partner agencies. and its work is already making an impact, including: Working across local authority boundaries to Setting up an Enquiries Register to manage streamline existing processes and procedures and resolve ‘real time’ issues affecting that can impact on the rapid deployment of infrastructure delivery including complex legal future facing digital technologies, and develop agreements, wayleaves, streetworks and permits, best practice planning guidance for mobile infrastructure problems and planning. operators and telecoms providers. Trialling the DCMS National Streetworks Toolkit Gaining a national profile and leading the way by liaising between CityFibre and Cambridgeshire for other programmes to follow. County Council’s Streetworks team to support the £20m fibre rollout in Cambridge City. Supporting FTTP deployment by Hyperoptic to Number of EDD Cases social housing with Cambridge City Council’s July 2018 - May 2019 Housing Department. EDD enquiry by type Open: 13 Promoting the use of public sector assets by Highways: 2 telecoms providers to support digital connectivity Major Developments: 2 delivery across the region. Spearheading the new policy for all Wayleave: 13 Cambridgeshire County Council’s major Closed: 22 Your knowledge of the market, the Infrastructure: 9 practicalities around installation Planning: 4 Complaints: 3 and the providers themselves has enabled FOI: 1 us to move the project forward much Streetworks: 1 more quickly and smoothly than would otherwise be the case. Up to the end of May 2019, 35 support requests have David Greening, Head of been registered; of which 22 have been resolved, with Housing, Cambridge City Council active management in place to resolve all others.
FOUR SIX FIVE SEVEN Future-facing Digital Connectivity for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Cambridgeshire and Peterborough is a leading digital economy with a bold vision to optimise Work is underway to deliver our Digital Connectivity This map shows current and potential sites for full private and public sector investment in future facing connectivity to underpin the region’s Strategy 2018 -2022, which sets out ambitious plans fibre networks, through private investment and growth, deliver public services, and support businesses and communities. to improve fibre broadband, public access Wifi and public sector building upgrades, as well as Public mobile coverage across the region. Access Wifi locations across the county. Ambitious delivery Thriving business Significant funding plans communities and commercial - Superfast broadband >99% - 43,874 businesses of which investment by end of 2020 the majority are SMEs Over £14m additional Wisbech - Mobile Coverage – 2G -4G -5G - 4,700 knowledge-intensive Government, EU and Local companies in the Authority funding - Full Fibre >30% by 2022 Peterborough Whittlesey Cambridge cluster supporting the delivery of - Public Access WiFi leading edge digital March infrastructure Key More than £80m for full fibre Collaborating networks including: BT, for success Chatteris Littleport Public Sector Building fibre upgrade locations CityFibre, Cambridge Fibre Networks, County Broadband, Combined Authority and local councils Private sector investment in fibre Gigaclear, Grain, Hyperoptic, Ely networks – announced/underway Virgin Media Telecoms providers and mobile Private sector investment in fibre operators networks – under consideration Virgin Media 8GB trials in Businesses and communities Papworth CambWifi Academia Huntingdon Gigabit-capable networks St Ives CambWifi Coming Soon including new developments Soham at Alconbury, Northstowe etc Market towns Wifi Strong digital demand Market towns Wifi -in planning - Rising take-up: Superfast Broadband >63%, Full Fibre >33% or under consideration Fastest growing Gigabit vouchers for businesses St Neots Village/Community halls in planning or under consideration region to access new fibre networks Open+ Libraries - Fastest growing economy in the UK Cambridge Digital Innovation Corridors - GVA growth of 84.6% Cambourne (2001-2016) Innovation - International trade - Digital Innovation Corridors Concept map, not to scale. increasing by £300m by including a 40Km duct and fibre 2021 network from St Ives to Linton, digital infrastructure for the - Employment forecast - new A428 and off road routes 90,000 new jobs by 2036 Linton Cambridge and Peterborough Population forecast to rise in UK's top 10 Smart Cities to >1 million by 2036 Royston Combined Authority target Cambridge is the #1 UK city for patent applications 29,000 new homes by 2021, rising to 100,000 by 2037
EIGHT Superfast broadband rollout to reinvest in extending the rollout, together with Superfast broadband grants from the Government’s Rural Broadband Infrastructure Fund and the European Union. (24mbps +) targets Phase three of the rollout is underway, phase four Phase 2 - reached 96% homes & has been procured and is being planned to reach businesses remaining areas over the next two years. This includes Phase 3 – reached 97% early 2019 extending the fibre network to 5,300 additional Phase 4 – targeting >99% by end 2020 premises in harder to reach rural areas. Fibre to the Premise (FTTP) The Connecting Cambridgeshire superfast Increasingly, Fibre to the Premise (FTTP) technology broadband rollout, led by Cambridgeshire County is being used to connect remaining premises to the Council, is extending fibre connectivity to homes network, which means households and businesses and businesses that would not be able to get it can upgrade to faster, more reliable speeds of up to otherwise. 300Mbps, now or in the future. The programme reached its target of delivering FTTP superfast broadband access to over 97% of premises across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough in March OVERHEAD EXCHANGE LINES AND PREMISES 2019 (nine months early) and is aiming for more than POLES CONNECTION BOX CONNECTION 99% coverage by the end of 2020. POINT UNDERGROUND DUCTS NODE The county has some of the highest take up figures in the country, reaching over 63% superfast and more With FTTP, the fibre optic cable runs directly from than 30% full fibre by the end of April 2019, and rising. the telephone exchange to the property, either via The contract with BT includes a ‘clawback clause’ underground ducts or overhead cables on telegraph for take up over 20%, which means an additional poles, to a connection box. Peterborough and funding stream of £10m+ has been made available Fenland already have over 20% FTTP. Take-up Superfast progress Campaign HIGH 100% Connecting Cambridgeshire 97% >99% 90% 95% ran a successful Superfast 93% TAKETake-Up UP SUPERFAST COVERAGE 80% Broadband 70% campaign in early 2019, SUPERFAST funded SUby PEthe Government, 60% 60% RFAST 60% 50% to highlight OVER availability the 40% of superfast (and faster) 50% 30% fibre broadband and remind FIBRE TO THE 20% PREMISE (FTTP) 8% residents that they need to 10% upgrade to get it. 0 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
S SI N N G AN I P E AR IIII ES G PL SS –5 SE M IIII ES 5G – S S– IFI NINE IIIII – – SW EN NS IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII EN IFI AB E – PUBLIC ACCES ABL S W WIFI – 5G PLA CCES Mobile – 2G-4G-5G ING D PUBLIC A IGITAL DELIVER – FIBR SS RE Y IIIIIII VER IB CCE LF LL Y L III A FU U Working Together Wi-Fi –F IIIII C CALLING Mobile & 5G targets – LI E II B E L IIII IL BI PU OB O PE II M Connecting Cambridgeshire is building relations with M 4G – II R SU 4G & Working with mobile operators to improve III PE E 3G F RFA A G& I R – ST BROA BAND ST mobile operators and our dedicated Enabling Digital III B D SU FI –3 III I III poor coverage affecting businesses and PER BR III L FAST BROADBAND III Delivery team is working to resolve barriers that L OA III II FU communities III – DB III IIII D – LE AN IIII prevent mobile connectivity from being improved. IIII 3G & 4G MOBI IIII IIII IIIII Targeting better coverage of A and B roads IIIIII IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII IIIIIII and rail routes by 2022 Mobile UK, the trade association for the UK’s mobile Planning ahead for early deployment of 5G network operators cited Connecting Cambridgeshire mobile services as a case study in its flagship report ‘Councils and Connectivity: How local government can help to build mobile Britain’, launched at Westminster in September Mobile coverage for voice and data (2G and 4G 2018. services) across parts of Cambridgeshire is variable which is causing widespread concern amongst businesses and communities and is seen to be negatively impacting local economic growth. Connecting Cambridgeshire is supporting improvements to network coverage so that people Building Mobile Britain relies on strong can make reliable mobile phone calls and use 4G partnerships and local Government has across the whole geography of the county, including a vital role to play in delivering this goal. Our A and B roads, and rail services by 2022. report, Councils and Connectivity, outlines how To support this, Cambridgeshire County Council proactive local government leadership, planning commissioned a technical mobile phone coverage and the sharing of ideas can enable and survey for the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough area, unlock opportunities to achieving a which took place during February and March 2019, world-class connected economy. covering a range of locations including roads, tourist How local Gareth government Elliott, can help to build mobile Britain Head of Policy and Communications, Mobile UK September 2018 attractions, parks and rail routes. The survey findings are being analysed in conjunction with the latest Ofcom data to identify areas of poor coverage, as the baseline for the programme’s mobile coverage improvement plan. This data will inform discussions which are underway with Ofcom, mobile operators, landowners, businesses and communities to improve access for infrastructure and broker solutions, with an initial focus on ‘notspot’ areas. Wi-Fi CALLING
TEN Public Access Wifi CambWifi is already available at around 150 sites Public Access Wifi across Cambridgeshire including libraries, leisure targets centres, community centres, children’s centres, sheltered housing schemes, and council buildings, Widespread free Wifi in public and also in open spaces in Cambridge. buildings and open spaces The secure, trusted network is free and is simple to Expanding Wifi provision in market join via a single sign on and registration. It supports towns, village halls and community digital inclusion and the local economy: allowing buildings people to access public services, shop or pay bills online and keep in touch with family and friends without having to travel. The programme is liaising with District and Town Connecting Cambridgeshire is looking to expand free Councils to support emerging Market Towns public access Wifi services so that more people can Masterplans to increase Wifi services in market get online in public buildings, open spaces and retail towns so that residents, traders and visitors can centres around the county. access information and make payments online. The programme is delivering a Public Access Public access Wifi is planned to be delivered in Wifi Strategy for cities, market towns and rural Fenland market towns from summer 2019, followed or sub-urban areas across Cambridgeshire and by Huntingdonshire and East Cambridgeshire market Peterborough, and is working towards CambWifi towns by the end of 2019. availability across all areas. East Cambs District Council is piloting the provision We want to see greater equity of free of public access Wifi in Ely and Soham town public access to Wifi, which is why centres via a local provider with the support of the we are keen to extend free public access programme, which has brought a positive impact for across our Market Towns to follow the very the local economy. successful projects that are already in place. Plans are also being developed to extend public access This scheme will allow local people and Wifi provision to some village halls and community visitors to get online in public buildings and buildings, following a survey by CambsACRE to open spaces across our area, so that they can assess where free public access Wifi would help local be connected wherever they are. communities to support their activities. James Palmer, Mayor of Cambridgeshire The map on the centre pages shows current & Peterborough and planned Public Access Wifi locations across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. CambWifi: working towards CambWifi network availability across all areas Seamless Content Single sign Trusted connection GDPR filtered on and network across the compliant for safe registration CPCA area access
ELEVEN The Smart Places Initiative is exploring how data and More than 250 people took part in a series of events emerging technology can be used in market towns and posted their feedback on an interactive map to to help to address common challenges such as highlight key areas where smart technology could transport, connectivity and air quality. help such as congestion, public transport, community information, and air quality sensors. It builds upon the innovative work of the Smart Cambridge programme, led by Connecting The next steps will see the Smart Places team Cambridgeshire, which has helped to make Cambridge create project proposals for the Cambridgeshire & one of the top ten smart cities in the country. Peterborough Combined Authority to support on- going and planned MasterPlan works for St Neots. The Smart Places team is working in collaboration with communities, local authorities, town councils, businesses and academia to support St Neots is leading the way for our the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined new Smart Places Initiative…We’ve Authority’s Masterplans for market towns. had lots of great suggestions and look forward to working with the community and Smart St Neots local councils to take them forward. St Neots residents welcomed the opportunity to Cambridgeshire County Councillor David Wells, share their views to help find ‘smart’ solutions to Huntingdonshire District Councillor for St Neots (East) and tackle some of the town’s challenges. Chairman of the St Neots Masterplan steering group. Digital Connecting Connectivity Businesses Champion Full fibre networks mean businesses can prepare for gigabit- Cambridgeshire County capable connectivity, so they can access Councillor Ian Bates won speeds of up to 1,000 Mbps in future. a national Technology & Digital Award in 2018 for More than 100 Cambridgeshire and Peterborough his work championing businesses have successfully applied to install digital connectivity across full fibre gigabit capable connections through the the county. Government’s Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme. Cllr Bates chairs the Neighbouring businesses are being encouraged to County’s Economy and Environment Committee, pool their vouchers together with nearby residents which oversees the Connecting Cambridgeshire to share the installation costs using local full fibre digital connectivity programme. The LGiU and CCLA broadband suppliers. A new Rural Gigabit Voucher Councillor Achievement Award recognised his Scheme was also launched in May 2019 with support for the transformational effect of digital additional funding for rural residents to install connectivity for rural communities, business growth, gigabit-capable broadband as part of a group project. and smart energy. Find out more at: gigabitvoucher.culture.gov.uk
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