Gigabit in Scotland Public Review Report (Revision 3) September 2024
A revised report setting out the responses to the Public Review into eligible premises for public investment via Project Gigabit and actions taken as a result of the responses, including subsequent submissions. The report also describes the next steps for the delivery of Project Gigabit in Scotland.
2. Purpose Of This Public Review Report
Under the UK Government's Gigabit Infrastructure Subsidy Scheme[3] guidelines, public sector intervention in broadband infrastructure investment is limited to those areas where there is no current or planned (within the next 3 years) commercial deployments, to avoid distorting what might otherwise be/become a competitive market.
The Scottish Government carried out an Open Market Review (OMR)[4] of all current and planned infrastructure within the scope area between 21st February 2022 and 21st March 2022. The submitted data allowed us to produce a draft intervention area for the Public Review.
The Public Review completed in 2023 and the original version of this report set out the responses to the consultation and the actions that the Scottish Government took as a direct result of those responses and subsequent data changes from suppliers.
This report was originally published on 3rd November 2023[5] following the outcome of our Public Review. Further data submissions from infrastructure suppliers have been received and assessed as part of our regular rolling OMR update process, where suppliers provide coverage updates to the Scottish Government three times per year. As well as suppliers' plans, the Scottish Government also accounts for updates from existing intervention programmes, including the R100 Programme and UK Government programmes. Submissions received by 19th January 2024 were taken account of ahead of the first planned interventions earlier this year, with the updated outcome published in a revised version of this report on 22nd March 2024[6]. A further revision was published on 29th May 2024[7] that provided an update on procurements. This version of the report includes an update on eligible premises in Scotland following the most recent OMR exercise up to 17th June 2024. It also includes a further update to Section 5: Next Steps, with detail of the next planned procurements in Appendix E.
Contact
Email: gigabitomr@gov.scot
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