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<p>The market test pilots, announced by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport
in June 2014, will put the government and broadband industry in a better position
to roll out superfast broadband to the final 5% of premises by:</p><p> </p><p>· Generating
evidence about the cost of delivering superfast speeds in these hardest to reach areas,
in order to better understand the level of public investment that will be needed;</p><p>·
Building capacity and capability in the market, and increase the market’s knowledge
of State aid requirements, by sharing the pilot findings as widely as possible;</p><p>·
Generating evidence about expected levels of take-up in hardest to reach areas, and
how it can be incentivised.</p><p> </p><p>The eight pilots have now completed their
feasibility phase and Broadband Delivery UK is assessing whether projects have demonstrated
that they are financially and technically viable before they proceed into deployment
early in the New Year.</p><p>A table with details of the eight pilots is below.</p><p>
</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Testing</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Supplier</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Proposed
solution</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Location</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total
Funding</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Wireless</p></td><td><p>AB
Internet</p></td><td><p>A hybrid fixed line/fixed wireless superfast rural broadband
network. All services on the proposed pilot network will be delivered via an end to
end network and will deliver end user speeds of up to 50Mbps</p></td><td><p>Wales</p></td><td><p>£847,650</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>
</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Wireless</p></td><td><p>Airwave</p></td><td><p>Demonstrating
how four next-generation wireless systems will operate in the field. The four are:
Wi-Fi at 2.4Ghz, point-to-multipoint broadband fixed wireless access at 2.4 Ghz or
5.8Ghz, LTE small cells and TV white space.</p></td><td><p>North Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>£1,564,600</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>
</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Wireless</p></td><td><p>Quickline</p></td><td><p>Testing
a range of line of sight, near line of sight and non-line of site technologies combined
with a BDUK funded voucher scheme to maximise early uptake and avoid social exclusion.</p></td><td><p>North
Lincolnshire</p></td><td><p>£2,054,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Satellite</p></td><td><p>Avanti</p></td><td><p>Piloting
a new superfast satellite broadband wholesale platform to deliver a 30Mbps service
using its Ka-band satellites.</p></td><td><p>Northern Ireland and Scotland</p></td><td><p>£885,640</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>
</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Satellite</p></td><td><p>Satellite Internet</p></td><td><p>Piloting
superfast satellite broadband using Ka-band satellite for both uplink/downlink as
backhaul for local wireless networks, and directly to customers' premises.</p></td><td><p>Devon
and Somerset</p></td><td><p>£175,125</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>
</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Mixed:</p><p>Fibre, fixed wireless, sub-loop unbundling</p></td><td><p>Call
Flow</p></td><td><p>Testing a range of innovative "hybrid" engineering techniques/solutions
to achieve NGA delivery such as: sub loop unbundling of cabinets; building a significant
fibre network that connects as many of the deployed 'SLU node areas' together as possible;
NGA delivery using fixed wireless access; and fibre to the premise (FTTP).</p></td><td><p>
</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Hampshire</p></td><td><p>£1,194,145</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>
</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Financial model</p><p> </p></td><td><p>Cybermoor</p></td><td><p>
</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Financing through social investment<br><br>Developing a financing
solution to leverage social investment into fibre to the premise and wireless networks
in the last 5%.</p></td><td><p>Northumberland</p></td><td><p>£449,997</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>
</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Operating model</p></td><td><p>MLL</p></td><td><p>Aggregating
small wireless networks<br><br>Creating a common wholesale OSS/BSS platform for integrating/aggregating
rural wireless networks. In addition integrate an existing rural network to allow
it to be provided wholesale to other operators/ISPs and deploy a new Fixed Wireless
Access network.</p></td><td><p>Kent</p></td><td><p>£957,900</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
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