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UK Councils Quietly Recognise 30Mbps as NGA Superfast Broadband

Over the past two months a growing number of UK councils have begun to consult on how best to use money that has been clawed back (gainshare) from BT in order to further extend local broadband coverage, but this time around they all seem to agree that NGA superfast connectivity starts at 30Mbps, not 24Mbps or 15Mbps.

As most people know BT (Openreach) won all of the Government’s Phase one Broadband Delivery UK contracts, which aimed to deliver 90% coverage of “superfast broadband” (this has recently been achieved) and nearly all of the Phase Two contracts (these aim to deliver 95% coverage by 2017/18).