1. Steve Henderson Director, NGA, Midlands BT What, where and why?

2. What did we set out to achieve?  Contract signed August 2013  £19.8m project to extend availability of fibre broadband to 95% of homes and businesses  Funded by Government, Nottinghamshire County Council, Borough and District Councils, BT and the European Regional Development Fund  Making fibre broadband available to an additional 52,100 homes and businesses  To be completed by the end of March 2016  Involves 400 new fibre structures and 1 million km of new fibre optic cables  Builds on BT’s commercial rollout in the county which has already made fibre broadband available to more than 265,000 homes and businesses

3. What have we achieved so far?  First new fibre broadband cabinet went live in June 2014 in Collingham  82 cabinets live and accepting orders today, making fibre broadband available to more than 13,625 homes and businesses  244 cabinet sites surveyed  123 cabinets stood and powered  “Live” areas include: Collingham, Lowdham, Cotgrave, Arnold, Burton Joyce and Hucknall

4. Where next? Exchange areas coming soon include: Bilsthorpe Bingham East Leake Farnsfield Lowdham Ruddington Sandiacre Trentside Woodborough Blyth Misterton Saundby New Ollerton Whatton Ranskill Bleasby Wymeswold Pleasley Kegworth Pinxton Gamston Bawtry Sturton le Steeple Plumtree

5. It’s far from a simple switch-on  The rollout of fibre broadband in Nottinghamshire requires meticulous planning  It’s modelled on one leading principle – to bring fibre broadband to the most amount of homes and businesses for the funds available  We also take into account engineering logic, local demographics, geography, planning requirements and existing infrastructure  This is why it can result in it being possible to deliver fibre broadband to one village but not the one next to it  We’re doing everything we can to bring fibre broadband to as many homes and businesses in Nottinghamshire as possible

6.  According to Ofcom, 78% of the UK can access NGA broadband  UK-wide take-up of fibre over BT’s network is 15%  UK-wide take up of fibre across the BDUK project areas is 10%  Take-up in Nottinghamshire is 4.9%  Support the programme Success is about more than just the network