The growth of fibre: Options for connectivity. Mark Logan, Openreach September 2016

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1 The growth of fibre: Options for connectivity Mark Logan, Openreach September 2016

2 Investing in the UK s digital future Where we are today Over 90% of UK premises can access superfast broadband across all fixed networks, on target for 95% by end of 2017 Well over 25m premises now passed with fibre Working on behalf of over 500 Communication Providers Invested more than 10.5bn over the last 10 years in digital infrastructure and 3bn on fibre Our ambition Take UK superfast broadband coverage beyond 95% Move from a Superfast to an Ultrafast nation We stand ready to address slow speeds in the final few per cent of the country should there be regulatory support How we ll deliver G.fast Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) Long Reach VDSL

3 Faster speeds ambition for 12m Ultrafast by 2020 Consumers >11m homes passed with ultrafast by 2020 (mix of G.fast and FTTP) Continue G.fast trials Pilot G.fast at 25,000 homes in 16/17, with proposed future specification in Cherry Hinton, Cambridgeshire and Gillingham, Kent Ready for commercial deployment in 17/18 For business Up to 1m businesses to have Ultrafast access by 2020, including Business FTTP in high streets and business parks Complete trials of Business FTTP G.fast FTTP More Fibre To The Premises FTTP Ambition to increase mix of FTTP in Ultrafast roll out Continue trials to improve cost to deploy and customer experience FTTP for new build homes, rural areas, apartment blocks, businesses and where it makes sense

4 Delivering Ultrafast speeds G.Fast on track for 10m customers by months ago, G.fast was initially deployable at the distribution point close to the end customer and 96 port G.fast DSLAMs were not on vendors roadmaps Since then the ITU-T (Telecommunication Standardization Sector) has agreed an extended reach profile for G.fast Leading vendors have committed to G.fast DSLAMs with 96 ports Technology will be deployed using a side pod attached to the existing copper cabinet Most customers are achieving 300Mbps downstream and 30-50Mbps upstream Wide-scale pilot of 25,000 homes in Cherry Hinton and Gillingham will deploy from the Autumn T&Cs, and pricing, to be confirmed later this Autumn Next step will be to develop a deployment plan that will enable us to provide G.fast coverage to 10m premises by

5 Long Reach (LR) VDSL could help to bring higher speeds to customers in hard to reach areas Long Reach VDSL Progress to date 1. LR-VDSL has the potential to significantly raise speeds on long copper lines (above 2km and below 3.5km from the DSLAM) 2. LR-VDSL uses 3 key elements to increase performance: Greater use of the ADSL spectrum range Higher power levels across spectrum ranges Vectoring to minimise the additional interference from higher power levels A small-scale technical Proof of Concept was started in East Sussex in May 2016, open to CPs with existing GEA-FTTC lines We have seen very positive results In August 2016 we began a further Proof of Concept trial in The Outer Hebrides Next step is to run a series of trials in areas across the country, working with CPs 3. Standard VDSL and LR-VDSL can be applied on a line by line basis to achieve best performance on each line in a cabinet

6 Delivering Ultrafast speeds FTTP having an increasingly important role Multiple FTTP trials underway to test different deployment scenarios: Haydon Wick London Shefford Use of connectorisation and prebuild are quicker, slicker and cost effective and an excellent customer experience We want to build right up to the customers curtilage where we can to speed up and simplify provision Local marketing working with communities Sealed network Connectorised technology Vastly improved efficiency and reliability Micro cables and tools to reduce civils 6 Slicker processes such as 1 step build and commission and 1 step provision Efficient materials such as element trays and smaller closures saving 80% splicing costs

7 Faster Speeds for business Progress on our Ultrafast portfolio: Business FTTP update The first nine locations that will benefit from a new Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) product specifically designed for SMEs, offering ultrafast speeds of up to 1Gbps are; Bath, Bradford, Bristol, Liverpool, Manchester and Salford - as well as Westminster, Holborn and the City in London Announced terms and conditions for our trial in Bradford, which started last month. Our offer to CPs includes : Free connection on 330/30Mbps speed tier on all new orders Free connection and free rental on 500/165Mbps and 1000/220Mbps speed tiers Free 1Gbps GEA cablelink and 10Gbps GEA cablelink on the trial headend Bradford trial locations; Kirkgate & Queensgate high street retail Listerhills Science Park Fieldgate Business Park Work is underway to support the next stage of Business FTTP survey activity, with initial focus on Bath/ Bristol. Survey work has commenced in Avonmouth (trading estate area with c.525 businesses) Our plan is to deliver to internal DPs wherever possible (permissions dependent) Targeting a 6 week build cycle per PON (permissions dependent) using our new FTTP build process Avonmouth trading estate 9

8 A more competitive market More affordable business Ethernet We re enabling others to build 8 30% - 50% reductions in TCO since 2012 ECC included in the price for over 90% of orders Dark Fibre due 1 st October 2017 Fibre coverage across every City in the UK. Solutions from 10Meg to 100Gig An Ethernet service without the boxes using the same fibre infrastructure as our other Ethernet and Optical services Patch panel termination putting the choice of electronics and the speed of the line in the hands of the Communications Providers Priced based on our current EAD 1Gig active product, ~ 3,000 connection and ~ 3,000 to 5000 per annum rental Duct and Pole Access Access to our infrastructure to build NGA networks Originally launched in 2010 New improved service under test with reserve, survey and build process all in one go Much improved way of dealing with blockages and positive feedback from the trial Developing a self serv. tool for mapping infrastructure on the Openreach portal

9 Openreach Network Transforming from a copper voice network to an Internet ready high speed infrastructure 9

10 Looking to the future We re working collaboratively with our CP partners and wider industry on: G.fast - end customer pilots Business FTTP - designing and shaping products and delivery processes Long Reach VDSL - learning from proof of concept trials and preparing for the technical trials Dark Fibre Access shaping our Dark Fibre reference offer Duct and Pole Access proof of concept trial and future publication of digital maps