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West Sussex Better Connected Broadband - Progress Report for JDAC Item 8 Appendix B West Sussex Better Connected Broadband - Progress report for JDAC June 2015 Background Better Connected is an exciting project to bring better, faster broadband to West Sussex. West Sussex County Council recognises the difficulty that slow, and in some cases no, access to broadband speeds causes residents and businesses. It has committed a significant investment of £6.26m which has been matched by central government to contract with BT to build fibre Broadband infrastructure in the county. BT is committing more than £7m investment in the project. We aim for the majority of West Sussex premises to be able to access superfast fibre-based broadband speeds of 24Mbps in line with national targets and our available funding. By building on the continuing commercial deployment of broadband we will ensure that more than 90% of our county can access fibre- based broadband services by spring 2016. By that time all of the county will have access to download speeds of at least 2Mbps. The broadband infrastructure is being built in eight overlapping phases each requiring research, engineering surveys, network preparation and building. Progress to date Over 38,000 more homes and businesses are now able to enjoy all the benefits of a faster, more reliable fibre broadband connection. This is our most ambitious year of network build with engineers at work in every district and borough in the county. So far 235 new fibre-holding cabinets and five FTTP (fibre to the premise) sites are ready for service, with the majority now ‘live’ and accepting orders for broadband connection packages. Openreach has engineered 173km out of a total of 232km new fibre network underground and wherever possible work is being carried out overnight and outside of busy hours to avoid disruption on our roads. Work to upgrade the county’s three non-digitally enabled exchange areas at Sutton, Plaistow and East Marden is underway. Due to the rural nature of the majority of the locations and the fact that properties are long distances from the exchange and in small clusters, homes are connected to the exchange on ‘exchange only’ lines and not via street cabinets. The technology we are using to upgrade these areas is FTTP where fibre to the cabinet is not an option. Engineering challenges being encountered include silting of the ducting which will carry the new fibre cable, way leaves for the siting of infrastructure on private land and the provision of power to the new fibre cabinets. BT and Openreach teams are working through these. It can take some weeks from a cabinet being built to it ‘going live’ so that providers can offer connection packages. When a cabinet is ‘live’ customers contract to buy broadband services from an internet service provider, in the usual way. Further Funding We have carried out a second Open Market Review to establish current and planned (up to three years) broadband services by telecommunications suppliers. We have checked back our understanding with suppliers of the information provided and have now mapped the county to show the area remaining eligible for the additional £2.5m funding provided by central government and the County Council. The County Council is in a procurement process for a supplier. Since the general election the government has announced the establishment of a ‘digital infrastructure taskforce’ to realise its declared ambition of broadband coverage of ‘nearly all of the UK.’ We await more details about how this may be achieved, and funded, with interest. JDAC exchange areas update The plan continues to evolve as engineering challenges are encountered and overcome and work is completed. A DSLAM fibre cabinet has been built to upgrade the cabinet called Bury 1 which serves the Houghton area. Silted ducting has been unblocked and more than 1500 meters of new ducting has been built underground. New broadband services are expected to be available to order from Bury 1 imminently and are already available from cabinets Bury 2 and 3. The Aldingbourne area is served mainly by cabinets called Eastergate 1,2,4, 9 and 10 all which have been built successfully and are now live and accepting orders. Part of the Aldingbourne area is also covered by cabinet Slindon 2, which has been built and work to connect it to the network is continuing. Work to upgrade cabinets connected to the Arundel, Rustington and Findon exchanges has begun in phase four of the roll out. This will benefit the parishes of Angmering, Warningcamp, South Stoke, Poling, Burpham, Findon, Lyminster and Ford as well as Arundel. New broadband services are now available in Rustington, Arundel, Findon and Warningcamp. All other cabinets should be live with new broadband services in the summer. Additional engineering work in Ford and Findon will be carried out this year for premises connected directly to the exchange. Work to upgrade cabinets connected to the Littlehampton and Slindon exchanges has started as part of phase five of the roll out. These serve the parishes of Climping, Slindon and Madehurst. New broadband services are now available in Climping, the majority of Slindon and in Littlehampton. Clapham, Yapton, Barnham, Walberton and Patching parishes are now included in phase six. New broadband services are now available in Barnham and engineering is taking place in all other areas. More information Residents can find out whether broadband services are available to them by using the postcode checker at www.westsussex-betterconnected.org.uk/check- availability Our website includes an interactive map to keep track of what is happening where. The map is updated to show where work is being carried out and when broadband services will become available. The website also has information about the benefits of better, faster broadband and helps to put users in touch with broadband suppliers. Please do visit www.westsussex-betterconnected.org.uk for more information. .
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