1. Northern Ireland’s Superfast Platform
Stephen Mullan

3. Backhaul, core network and Service Provider interconnect
The Broadband Journey
Homes / Businesses
Exchange
Cabinet
Copper – DSL Up to 8Mbit/s
Copper
Backhaul, core network and Service Provider interconnect
1st Generation
Copper – next generation Up to 24Mbit/s
Copper
Fibre to the cabinet Up to 80Mbit/s
with improved upstream rates
Fibre
Copper
Next Generation
Fibre to the premise Up to 300Mbit/s with improved upstream rates
Fibre
All provided on an ‘open access’ basis 3

5. Invested in Northern Ireland
>£50m
Invested in Northern Ireland
In the past number of years BT has invested £30 million in its partnership with the Northern Ireland Government for the Next Generation Broadband Project.

6. Northern Ireland’s Next Generation Fibre Broadband Journey
Mar 2009
Dec 2009
- Mar 2011
Jan 2011
Jan 2011
Feb 2011
BT announces NGB fibre investment, as part of £2.5bn UK-wide project
DETI & BT roll out Next Generation Broadband Project (£51M)
Fibre contract awarded through
NI Broadband Fund
Investment in
UK City of
Culture 2013
BT accelerates
its NI rollout of
NGB Fibre, as
part of £2.5bn UK wide project
Balmoral, Newtownards, Bangor, and Lisburn become the first locations passed by Fibre programme
(279 cabinets)
100% of cabinets
fibre-enabled in Derry City (110 cabinets)
90% of Northern Ireland premises connected to a fibre cabinet by March 2012
(783 cabinets)
1,265 cabinets across 169 exchange areas by April 2011
Additional
23 cabinets in rural areas

7. Currently Northern Ireland exceeds coverage of major European incumbent fibre deployments0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
Northern
Ireland
Belgium
Switzerland
Germany
France UK
Netherlands
Austria
Italy
% of total premises
N.B. Figures used for other countries are for HHs passed and end 2012 whilst NI figure is lines passed, by March 2012 however, households with a
second line in NI are low enough for a like-for-like comparison

8. By end of 2015, WITHOUT any further expansion NI will continue to exceed coverage of major European incumbent fibre deployments 0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
Northern
Ireland
Switzerland
Belgium
Germany
Great
Italy
France
Netherlands
Austria
% of total premises
Britain
N.B. Figures used for other countries are for HHs passed and end 2012 whilst NI figure is lines passed, by March 2012 however, households with a
second line in NI are low enough for a like-for-like comparison

9. 90%
Now, over 90% of all premises in Northern Ireland are connected to a fibre cabinet offering download speeds of up to 80Mb and upload speeds of up to 20Mb.
This places NI at the forefront of fibre broadband roll-out in Europe

10. Can Rural Areas get Fibre?

11. Over 3,500km of fibre was installed predominantly in rural areas.
Over 70% of new fibre cabinets provided as part of the DETI project were in rural locations.
Over 3,500km of fibre was installed predominantly in rural areas.
Fibre broadband has been rolled out extensively in rural areas. In fact, two thirds of the funds for the DETI Next Generation Broadband Project were for the provision of broadband in rural areas.

12. Leading the way in the UK

13. Highest fibre availability Highest fibre uptake
Highest average download speeds
Over 90% of premises are connected to a fibre-enabled cabinet
More than 114,000 premises are already using the high speed service, with residents and businesses in urban and rural areas seeing the benefits that fibre broadband can bring.
A number of exchanges in Northern Ireland are in the Top 10 exchanges in UK with highest uptake of fibre broadband!
1 in 8 new fibre orders in UK are in NI – (12.5 %)
According to Ofcom, average download speeds1 in Northern Ireland have increased from 6.3 Mbits/s a year ago to 14.4 Mbit/s. This compares to the UK average of 12.7 Mbit/s.

14. Jonathan Rose, Director of Ofcom Northern Ireland
“A telecommunications infrastructure that is the envy of many other countries”
This achievement places Northern Ireland ahead of most European countries in terms of fibre broadband availability.
Jonathan Rose, Director of Ofcom Northern Ireland

15. How to get fibre broadband?
The network is open access
Check availability on nibroadband.com
Currently 25 internet service providers
Currently 25 internet service providers are using the fibre optic network to sell directly to their own customers in NI.
This brings choice and competition.

17. Why can’t I get fibre broadband?
A distance dependent technology
Fibre broadband is available up to approx. 2km from a fibre enabled cabinet
Technical Reasons
Commercial Reasons
They are too far from a fibre-enabled cabinet (over 2km from cabinet)
They are connected directly to the exchange and not via fibre-enabled cabinet
To date, it is not commercially viable to fibre-enable their cabinet

18. What can I do about it? Speak to your CP Speak to your Lobby DETI
local MLA
Lobby DETI

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