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  • This guidance provides an overview of Project Gigabit and answers to frequently asked questions. It outlines how councillors can use their unique local role to support the deployment of gigabit-capable broadband in their are…

  • Our first combined Annual Report and our Resource Accounts cover the year ended 31 March 2009.

  • The Barrier Busting Handbook supports suppliers local authorities, and other partner organisations, in managing and unlocking challenges preventing delivery of gigabit-capable broadband infrastructure.

  • Details on how the Government is exploring options for extending superfast broadband coverage beyond 95% of the UK.

  • Case studies about sites part of the Very Hard to Reach premises alpha trials.

  • BDUK has awarded broadband provider Wessex Internet a Project Gigabit contract to provide around 10,500 premises across the New Forest and surrounding areas with access to gigabit-capable broadband.

  • BDUK wants to make best use of public funding and invest where commercial broadband suppliers would not otherwise go.

  • The Government asked the Future Communications Challenge Group (FCCG) to give it advice on what the UK should do to be a world leader in 5G. The FCCG has now produced it's interim report.

    First published during the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

  • How can local authorities demonstrate leadership and create a strategy to encourage investment in digital infrastructure?

  • Projects awarded under the Rural Connectivity Accelerator programme that will enhance our understanding of the connectivity needs of businesses in rural and Very Hard to Reach (VHTR) areas of the UK.

  • This guidance sets out requirements for broadband suppliers delivering gigabit capable broadband within / close to designated heritage assets or their settings.

  • Building Digital UK (BDUK) has partnered with National Parks England, Openreach and Trenches Law to agree a joint accord to create a standardised approach to the timely delivery of gigabit broadband within the 10 English Nat…

  • An Open Market Review request for information from broadband network providers operating in intervention areas identified in Phase 1b and Cornwall of Project Gigabit.

  • As part of it’s ambitions to ensure the UK has the best superfast broadband network in Europe by 2015, the Government is committed to reducing…

  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport Resource Accounts 2007-08 (for the year ended 31 March 2008)

  • This document sets out the lessons learnt from the initial pilot projects announced in 2010. The report focuses on their set up, preparation…

  • DCMS Resource Accounts 2005 - 2006 PDF (210kb)

  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport Resource Accounts 2006-07 (for the year ended 31 March 2007). Management commentary. Remuneration…

  • This document sets out the Government’s vision for a superfast broadband network in the UK

  • On Monday 6 December 2010, Jeremy Hunt and Ed Vaizey launched the Government’s National Broadband Strategy: “Britain’s Superfast Broadband Future…