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https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2019/01/bt-secure-9-25m-wales-lot-2-superfast-broadband-rollout-contract.html

The Welsh Government has quietly chosen BT (Openreach) to supply the final LOT 2 of their Phase 2 “superfast broadband” (30Mbps+) roll-out contract, which uses £9.256m of public money and aims to bring FTTP and some FTTC coverage to even more premises across East Wales (rural areas).

The original Superfast Cymru contract – partly funded by a public investment of £225m (including some from the Broadband Delivery UK programme) – completed earlier this year. Overall this helped to extend the coverage of Fibre-to-the-Cabinet (FTTC / VDSL2) and ultrafast Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband technologies to an additional 733,000 premises (drops to 717K if only counting 30Mbps+ capable premises).

As it stands today nearly 95% of premises in Wales should now be able to access a 30Mbps+ capable broadband connection, although most of this has been delivered by commercial projects rather than the above scheme (Superfast Cymru was aimed at areas that commercial investment alone would have found too difficult or expensive to reach).

Since last year the Welsh Government has also been busy developing a new follow-on Phase 2 scheme to tackle c.88,000 premises in the final 5%+, which originally aspired to make “fast reliable broadband” (defined as 30Mbps+) available to “every property” and aims to focus on “full fibre” (FTTP/H) connectivity. The potential value of this project is up to £200m, with around £62m already confirmed.

As part of all this the WG invited potential suppliers to bid on three regional deployment lots in January 2018, which are as follows.

    LOT 1 – North West Wales (Est. value: £14.858m)
    Areas: Ceredigion; Conwy; Denbighshire; Gwynedd; Isle of Anglesey
    Intervention Area of 23,355 NGA white premises [revised] has been identified with an additional 27,590 premises potentially available pending further info.
    Contracted Supplier: BT (£6,583,064 – 5,740 premises out of 23,355)

    LOT 2 – East Wales (Est. value: £21.706m)
    Areas: Cardiff; Flintshire; Monmouthshire; Newport; Powys; Vale of Glamorgan; Wrexham
    Intervention Area of 32,356 NGA white premises has been identified with an additional 19,689 premises potentially available pending further info.
    Contracted Supplier: BT (£9.256m – ? premises out of 32,356)

    LOT 3 – South West Wales (Est. value: £25.436m)
    Areas: Blaenau Gwent; Bridgend; Caerphilly; Carmarthenshire; Merthyr Tydfil; Neath Port Talbot; Pembrokeshire; Rhondda Cynon Taf; Swansea; Torfaen
    Intervention Area of 37,818 NGA white premises has been identified with an additional 15,900 premises potentially available pending further info.
    Contracted Supplier: BT (£6,740,426 – 10,175 premises out of 37,818)