INCA's Transform Digital: Bristol conference

1. This Gigabit City deal is the most
important development for
Peterborough since the railways.
It is future proof.”
- Marco Cereste,
Leader of Peterborough City Council
INTRODUCTION
Mark Collins
Director, Strategy & Public Affairs
INCA Transform Digital: Bristol
16th September 2015
Securing the UK’s Gigabit Future

2. Computing
Speed
Storage
Capacity
How Do We Keep Up?
Global IP
Traffic
UK Broadband
Speed
1985 1990 2005
1995 2000 2010 2015 2020
Source: Google Fiber, Cisco
We are in a
technological
revolution

3. The Gigabit City
1. Establish the
citywide core dark
fibre infrastructure
2. Expand to full
FTTP and FTTH
Homes
Small Business
Mobile & Wireless
Large Business
CCTV, UTC Etc
Public Sector Sites

4. 4
- 150km core metro network build
- 12 month construction project
- 200 business customers committed by
Edinburgh ISP Commsworld
- 300 council sites to be connected in UK’s
largest PSN procurement
- Addressable base of 17,000 Edinburgh
businesses

5. 5

9. 9
UK’s 1st Large Scale FTTH Deployment

10. 10
UK’s 1st Dark Fibre to the Tower Deployment

11. Gigabit City Projects
11

12. Investment Stimulates Growth
• Deliver future-proof fibre connectivity to business,
public sector and mobile in c.100 towns and cities
£1bn investment
• Expand to full FTTH across this footprint
>£3bn investment opportunity
• Drive incremental GVA of 2-3% across our
Gigabit Cities

13. Making It Happen
Infrastructure competition is alive and well in the UK,
but we must:
• Maintain a pro-competitive, pro-investment
environment
• Focus on the long term
• Not rely on any one player to deliver
Infrastructure Investors Group (IIG) – formed by
CityFibre, euNetworks, Virgin and Zayo.

14. Thank You
Mark Collins
Director, Strategy & Public Affairs
mark.collins@cityfibre.com
www.cityfibre.com