1.7.2010
Cornwall & Isles of Scilly Next Generation broadband Delivery Management Team
This project provides the capacity to manage the delivery of the £132.5m Cornwall Next Generation Broadband project. The NGB Delivery Management team will contract manage the selected investor and providers of NGB business support, and undertake demand stimulation activities aimed at ensuring that 10,000 businesses are connected.
NGB investment represents the single largest and most transformational ERDF investment that the Convergence programme will make. It contributes towards the programme’s operational objectives by providing the platform for economic transformation to a more knowledge based, high value added, lower carbon economy, The project links together and adds value to virtually all other investments in the programme, including, place based regeneration activity, innovation centres and the Combined Universities in Cornwall developments.
The number of targeted businesses will be maximised by ensuring early deployment to business parks and other areas of Convergence activity, providing fibre connectivity with up to 100Mb/s capability. High value businesses will be prioritised for connection within the rollout plan wherever possible and will be selected for higher speed solutions where this is achievable.
By the end of Year 4, a fibre based solution will be available to 90% of all Cornwall’s businesses, and a total of 10,000 of Cornwall’s 25,000 businesses will be connected. More than half of these will have access to the highest speeds with a Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) solution.
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30.09.10 £132 Million Broadband Project to Transform Cornish Economy
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