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Q2 2016 Take-up Stats for the BDUK and BT Fibre Broadband Roll-out

The Government’s Broadband Delivery UK project has released its latest Q2 2016 take-up data for the state aid supported roll-out of superfast broadband (24Mbps+) services across the United Kingdom, which shows that many local authorities are seeing 30% adoption of the new service and that will help reinvestment.

Understanding take-up is crucial because it links into the clawback (gain share) mechanism of BDUK’s local authority contracts, which requires BT to return part of the public investment when adoption of the new service passes beyond the 20% mark in related areas. The funding can then be reinvested to further boost coverage and connection speeds via future contracts.

The Government’s former Digital Economy Minister, Ed Vaizey (MP), revealed earlier this year that they’re “on course to clawback £250 million, maybe more. I think it’s been a very cost effective programme.” BDUK has recently hinted that this could be enough to push UK wide coverage to around 97-98% by 2019 via future contracts.