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BDUK Wireless Broadband Pilot Embroiled in BT Overbuilding Spat

The £1.56m state aid supported Broadband Delivery UK pilot of a new superfast fixed wireless broadband network, which was built by Airwave in North Yorkshire (England), appears to have run into an overbuilding conflict with BT’s (Openreach) roll-out of FTTC based “fibre broadband” services.

Normally such conflicts arise between commercial or community focused operators and BT’s state aid supported roll-out, but in this case it’s a more unusual dispute because both networks have been built with public funding from the Government’s same Broadband Delivery UK pot.

Airwave (via Boundless) initially built their network around the rural Esk Valley and Upper Dales areas of North Yorkshire, which was designed to test point-to-multipoint broadband fixed wireless access at 2.4GHz or 5.8GHz, WiFi at 2.4GHz, LTE (4G) small cells and TV white space technology (the latter was found not to be viable).