The Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency has made good progress this year achieving most objectives set out in its Corporate Plan 2023 to 2026, with over 81% of UK residents now having access to a gigabit-capable broadband.
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Altnets that have received government funding could be failing to make their cables easily available to other operators, despite this being a condition of receiving taxpayers’ money, according to AssetHUB.
The asset reuse specialist claims this is holding back plans to level-up rural and remote communities across the UK and is stopping altnets from winning revenues by selling unused fibre to other companies.
“Close to 100,000km of fibre is being deployed across the UK thanks to the £1.4 billion in Project Gigabit funding from BDUK,” said James Saunby, from industry specialists GreySky Consulting. “It is critical that network builders understand the potential for these networks to be clearly open and able to be used.”
Rob Leenderts, CEO of AssetHUB, added: “For those network builders who have funded their own network buildouts, there is the added opportunity to generate some more revenue by selling space, services and unused fibre to other companies.”
