In January 2023, DLA Piper published a further update in its series on Project Gigabit (“Project”), exploring the progress made by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (“DCMS”) up to the end of Autumn 2022 towards national coverage of gigabit-capable broadband. Further detail on
Continue Reading Project Gigabit: Winter Update 2022
In September 2022, DLA Piper published its latest article in its series on Project Gigabit (“Project”), detailing the progress made by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (“DCMS”) up to the end of Summer 2022 towards national coverage of gigabit-capable broadband. Further detail on
Continue Reading Project Gigabit: Autumn Update 2022
In June 2022, DLA Piper published its latest article in its series on Project Gigabit (“Project”), detailing progress made by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (“DCMS”) up until Spring 2022 towards national coverage of gigabit-capable broadband. Further detail on the overall Project can
Continue Reading Project Gigabit: Summer Update 2022
In February 2022 DLA Piper published an article on the winter update (the “Winter Update”) to Project Gigabit (“Project”) and the developments made by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (“DCMS”) as it progresses towards national coverage of gigabit-capable broadband. Further detail
Continue Reading Project Gigabit: Spring Update 2022
In November 2021 DLA Piper published a report on Project Gigabit‘s (“Project“) ‘Autumn Update‘ detailing the progress made by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (“DCMS“) in its push towards nationwide coverage of gigabit-capable broadband. Further detail on the overall Project
Continue Reading Project Gigabit: Winter Update
DLA Piper has worked recently on many projects concerning FTTP (fibre to the premises) investments throughout Europe, and especially in the UK (including acting for Axione on the GBP£300m formation of Axione Fibre, for Northleaf on the GBP£100m acquisition of Quickline, and G Networks on their GBP£1billion fundraising as
Continue Reading Fibre to the Premises and the key definition of “premises passed”
In August DLA Piper published a report on Project Gigabit’s (“Project”) ‘Summer Update’ detailing the progress that the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (“DCMS”) has made in its push towards nationwide coverage of gigabit-capable broadband throughout the UK. Further detail on
Continue Reading Project Gigabit: Autumn Update
In June this year, DLA Piper published an update detailing the ongoing progress of Project Gigabit (the UK Government’s plan to support nationwide coverage of gigabit-capable broadband throughout the UK). Further details on the overall Project Gigabit can be found in our previous article issued in March.
In our June
Continue Reading Project Gigabit: Summer Update
In March this year, DLA Piper published an article on Project Gigabit – the UK Government’s recently released plan to support nationwide coverage of gigabit-capable broadband throughout the UK. In our article we noted that the approach to the subsidy would be a procurement-led model, whereby prospective fibre operators bid
Continue Reading Project Gigabit Update: Ofcom releases details on Gigabit Infrastructure Subsidy Scheme
In 2018, we published an article setting out Ofcom’s commitment to supporting investment in full fibre broadband and highlighted changes Ofcom was planning to introduce to applicable market regulation to support investment in fibre networks.
Market regulation in the wholesale fixed telecommunications market set out in our article fell away
Continue Reading UPDATE: Regulation of Fibre Broadband in the UK: Ofcom publishes wholesale fixed telecommunications market review decisions for 2021-2026
