BT Superfast Cymru Presentation

1. Superfast Cymru – Progress – September 2013
Cyflymu Cymru - Cyflwyniad
Sustainable Transport Cymru
Ed Hunt (BT Group)

2. Agenda
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Programme Aims
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Roll-Out
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Intervention Area
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Wholesale Network
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Delivering Jobs
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BT Net Good goal
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Q&A
www.superfast-cymru.com

3. Programme Aims
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Put Wales in the top 10 of fibre penetrated OECD* countries
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Assist economic growth so that businesses can:
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Create sustainable jobs
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Acquire new customers by marketing digitally
Sell more by developing new services or sell on-line for the first time
Use Productivity improvements e.g. videoconferencing or audio calls with remote colleagues and
home working can be more time efficient than travelling
Improve Security as cloud computing becomes a possibility
All of the above open up the possibility of creating new business opportunities which create jobs
Support skills and training for school and adult learners – both those in work and those seeking
employment
Reduce the need to commute through home working
Social inclusion
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People without access to broadband today will be able to enjoy the richness of on-line services
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*Interpreted from OECD Percentage of fibre connections in total broadband among countries reporting fibre subscribers, December 2011

4. Roll-Out
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Adding to BT’s commercial roll-out
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Part of a £2.5bn investment in fibre based broadband
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Roll out the most cost effective broadband network benefitting as many of the people of
Wales as possible
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NGBW roll-out priorities defined by Welsh Government
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Approach
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Economic e.g. Enterprise Zones & Local Growth Zones
Social e.g. help with digital exclusion
Rural and urban deployment at the same time
Business and consumer at the same time
A massive engineering project:
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Five Millennium Stadiums or two Cardiff Bay barrages
17,500kms of optical fibre
3,000+ new fibre broadband cabinets
www.superfast-cymru.com

5. Country-Wide Intervention Area
Next Generation
Broadband Wales
investment
Existing or planned
commercial investment
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6. www.superfast-cymru.com Interactive Map
Deployment already in
• Bangor
• Caernarfon
• Pwllheli
• Menai Bridge
• Porthmadog
• Dolgellau
• Ebbw Vale
• Tredegar
• Cwm
• Abertillery
• Cricceth
• Abersoch
• And others
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More to come in 13/14 in
• Swansea
• Blaenau Gwent
• Vale of Glam
• Newport
• Gwynedd
• Anglesey
• Powys
• And others

7. Wholesale Service ‘Competition Ready’ Network
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8. BT Delivering Jobs Around Wales
• Contractual obligation to deliver:
– 50 full time Jobs
• 90 delivered already
– 100 Apprentices
• 74 delivered already
– 900 person weeks of work experience
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9. BT Net Good Goal
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Help customers reduce carbon emissions by at least three times the end to end
impact of BT’s business
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Measurement methodology developed by BT, Carbon Trust and Camanoe
Associates (MIT)
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www.bt.com/betterfuture
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The cry for better broadband in Wales is not reflected in the actual exploitation
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Wales has the lowest percentage of broadband connections out of all four Nations
How can this asset be exploited?
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10. Diolch am Wrando/Thank You For Listening
Q&A