6. population: 534k
peripheral location:
train to London 5½ hours
small rural market towns
weak economy:
GVA 65% of UK average
qualified for EU structural funds:
ERDF Convergence 2007-2015
7. a bold aspiration …
£132m partnership
open access
100% with 80%
fibre coverage
infrastructure for
economic transformation
10,000 business
connections
4,000 new jobs
a rural fibre exemplar
gap funded investor
build/own/operate
futureproofing
productivity &
competitiveness
risk
sharing
20. world class rural fibre broadband network
driving high levels of participation
business
support
digital
skills
public sector
transformation
digital
inclusion
environmental
sustainability
benefit evaluation
research &
innovation
21.
22.
23. impact ... 2015 results
Plymouth University SERIO
quantitative analysis
sample: 2000+
JUN-2015
www.superfastcornwall.org/impact
2000+ survey responses
12,000+ SMEs connected (42%)
£186.1m GVA increase already
£30.5m GVA from start-ups
£250m+ by mid-2016
4500 jobs (2000 created; 2500 safeguarded)
connected SMEs’s revenues growing 4.5x faster
50% creating new goods & services
25% reaching new international markets
all from £53.5m of EU funds !
27. powerful partnership model for deployment in uncommercial areas
‘mixed economy’ of solutions essential, but rich with fibre
rural and urban
fixed coverage underpinning mobile coverage
coverage, quality and speed
driving usage + transformation: business, public sector, education, health, inclusion, environmental etc
smart cities + smart rural areas
continuing to be a leading digital economy
Summary
28. Urban and Rural Fibre Success
in the UK
Ranulf Scarbrough
BT Group