[Swlug] 2019 Next generation access broadband consultation opens

[David Hodgkinson]

I’m up the hill from St Fagans and get 40/15. That’s good right?

I think cable will be dead in 10 years.

> On 28 Nov 2019, at 13:14, Daniel Morris via Swlug <swlug at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> Akin to counting deck chairs on the Titanic, the Welsh Government are
> again asking residents, businesses and local authorities to check the
> details on record of the plans (or otherwise) for superfast
> connectivity and give them feedback. Here's the link to the
> consultation:
> 
> https://gov.wales/sites/default/files/consultations/2019-11/next-generation-access-broadband-consultation-document.pdf
> 
> Confusingly it says the consultation closes 12th December, but has 1700
> on the 5th in s6.2.
> 
> s6.3 says how to respond (pg11) with a link to the interactive map:
> 
> http://lle.gov.wales/map/ngaomr2019
> 
> (if you get a continuous spinner then try disabling uBlock Origin in
> Firefox/your browser)
> 
> The data for my home and others in the postcode looks wrong. Again it
> says there are plans for us to be connected in the next three years, and
> yet I got a quote from Openreach in the summer that said we'd need
> £21,539 of "gap" funding to be raised by my community (Community Fibre
> Partnership) to connect us to the point where Superfarce Cymru stopped
> (280m of duct needed under a field and then pole-pole for the dozen
> houses that get 1.9->4.8Mbps download). Openreach haven't provided a
> breakdown of that cost in the six weeks since asking for it.
> 
> 2km back down the FTTP installation towards the cabinet, our MP enjoys
> 330Mbps (up from the 16Mbps-ish he had on ADSL) with 4G at 19-24Mbps
> down (18-24Mbps up!) measured on the pavement outside his home this
> week. Our community sits behind the directional 4G mast that he receives
> signal from. We sometimes get 4G from a mast ~12km away that faces back
> towards us and sometimes we don't (highly dependent on weather).
> 
> As a bonus, our road has had multiple closures to enable BT to haul more
> fibre to that 4G mast that doesn't serve us.
> 
> The whole of that FTTP install was also reworked some months after it
> went live, changing the hardware to speed up connections into premises,
> whilst moaning in the press that superfast takeup was slow and messing
> customers about with months of cancelled appointments to make the
> in-home FTTP installation. As ever BT/Openreach techies on the
> ground/ladder were friendly and helpful, but the maps on their
> ruggedised tablets showed there was no intention of reaching our
> community.
> 
> The Welsh Government was also unable to find data for our postcode from
> the 2017 OMR in the 400 days it took from an FOI request to First Tier
> Tribunal seeking to get plans released by WG (ruling summary, WG give BT
> £200M+ and have no rights to see planning data).
> 
> Pessimistic? Moi? At least there's only four months to join the back of
> the queue under USO.
> 
> Daniel
> 
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