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We’re busy deploying and planning the roll out across Cumbria and you can check here for the latest updates on when you can expect to upgrade to fibre broadband.
The Openreach fibre availability checker shows you if you can get fibre broadband to your home or property, however please note that this information is fed from a national database managed by a third party and is outside the County Council’s control.
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Map showing indicative Phase 1 deployment of fibre broadband
Map showing areas excluded from Connecting Cumbria Phase 2 deployment of Next Generation Access (NGA) fibre broadband
Map showing areas excluded from Connecting Cumbria Phase 2 deployment of basic fibre broadband
Connecting Cumbria programme
Connecting Cumbria is a partnership between Cumbria County Council and BT that will boost the local economy by supporting the creation and protection of jobs over the next few years. The county’s enterprise zones are a key priority as superfast broadband will help local businesses to become more competitive but will also help spread these services much further for residential use. The project is being funded by the Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK), Cumbria County Council and BT.
Phase 1 of the programme is scheduled to run until the summer of 2016.
Phase 2 of Connecting Cumbria is aiming to extend the availability of superfast broadband to 95% of premises across the county by mid 2018. A contract is now in place with BT to deliver this together with commercial deployments in the county.
The deployment strategy of Connecting Cumbria is to provide a superfast broadband infrastructure to as many premises within the available funds. This means that we select areas for Phase 2 deployment to maximise the premises passed. All else being equal we do have a preference for areas with more businesses, or areas that have lower percentage coverage from the Phase 1 deployment, but the overarching priority remains to cover as many premises as possible.
Between 28th November 2014 - 9th January 2015 a public consultation sought opinions on the potential Intervention Areas for superfast and basic broadband in Phase 2. The consultation enabled the public and service providers to comment on the target areas and register opinions.
Please find below a summary of responses and some further information on how the intervention area is assessed and identified.
Public Consultation Responses Summary
State Aid Public Consultation Document
Supplementary Notes
Further work has been carried out with service providers since the public consultation closed in order to finalise the intervention area. The result of this is shown in the maps below.
The grey area on the map is where there is commercial live and planned coverage or Connecting Cumbria Phase 1 live and planned coverage. The white area is the Phase 2 Intervention Area where we are able to invest state aid. Please note that this doesn’t mean that we will provide superfast broadband in all of the white area, but rather this is the area that we will look at in our planning and survey work.
Phase 2 Intervention Area basic broadband - final
Phase 2 Intervention Area Next Generation Access superfast broadband - final
BDUK Launches Public Review in Cumbria
Building Digital UK has today - Tuesday 9th February 2021 - launched a Public Review in Cumbria.
Following an Open Market Review which took place in late 2020, BDUK is seeking views from the public and other stakeholders with regard to existing or planned commercial gigabit capable broadband in the area of Cumbria.
This consultation opens on 9th February 2021 and closes on 9th March 2021.
This is part of the wider UK Gigabit Programme announced by the government with the ambition of delivering nationwide gigabit connectivity as soon as possible. Our target is a minimum of 85% gigabit-capable covergae by 2025, with an ambition toget as close to 100% as possible.
For further information and details on how to respond, please visit:
www.gov.uk/government/consultations/uk-gigabit-programme-cumbria-public-review
In 2015 Cumbria County Council’s public consultation, which sought to identify areas which do not have Next Generation (NGA) broadband infrastructure or where there are no plans to provide such infrastructure over the next three years, closed and state aid Intervention Area was set for the Connecting Cumbria programme. Further to this evidence has emerged that NGA services are not available in a number of postcodes where coverage had been claimed during the public consultation.
Following conclusion of our consultation, conducted between 16th January and 13th February 2017, we can confirm that suitable evidence has been put forward to confirm NGA service availability in the 146 postcodes considered for reclassification as NGA white. On the basis of this Cumbria County Council and Broadband Delivery UK have concluded that NGA services are not available in these postcodes and they should now be reclassified as NGA White thus becoming eligiblefor publicly funded interventionunder the Connecting Cumbria programme.
Please note that funding and technology under the Connecting Cumbria remains limited therefore a postcode becoming NGA White does not guarantee that NGA broadband deployment activity will be undertaken. The Connecting Cumbria programme will continue to work as efficiently as possible to reach as many properties as we can across Cumbria with available funding.
The 146 postcodes now reclassified as NGA White are:
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CA1 2FD | CA5 7HL | CA7 2QA | CA7 8AB | CA7 8BX | CA7 8NE | CA8 9DX |
CA15 6RB | CA5 7HN | CA7 2QB | CA7 8AD | CA7 8BY | CA7 8NG | CA8 9EA |
CA5 6AA | CA5 7HQ | CA7 5AA | CA7 8AE | CA7 8BZ | CA7 8NH | CA8 9EB |
CA5 6AB | CA6 4BY | CA7 5AB | CA7 8AF | CA7 8DA | CA7 8NJ | CA8 9EE |
CA5 6AD | CA7 0JJ | CA7 5AD | CA7 8AG | CA7 8DB | CA7 8NQ | CA8 9EG |
CA5 6AF | CA7 0LU | CA7 5AE | CA7 8AH | CA7 8DD | CA8 1LB | CA8 9EH |
CA5 6BJ | CA7 0LY | CA7 5DH | CA7 8AJ | CA7 8DG | CA8 1LD | CA8 9EN |
CA5 6JD | CA7 1DE | CA7 5DJ | CA7 8AL | CA7 8DH | CA8 1LE | CA8 9HD |
CA5 6JE | CA7 1DF | CA7 5DL | CA7 8AN | CA7 8DN | CA8 1LF | CA8 9HQ |
CA5 6JF | CA7 1EW | CA7 5DN | CA7 8AQ | CA7 8DW | CA8 1LL | CA8 9JF |
CA5 7EP | CA7 2DJ | CA7 5DP | CA7 8AR | CA7 8LJ | CA8 1LN | CA8 9JG |
CA5 7ER | CA7 2DR | CA7 5DQ | CA7 8AS | CA7 8LL | CA8 1LT | CA8 9JH |
CA5 7ES | CA7 2JR | CA7 5DR | CA7 8AT | CA7 8LN | CA8 1LU | CA8 9JL |
CA5 7EW | CA7 2JX | CA7 5DS | CA7 8AU | CA7 8LU | CA8 1LW | CA8 9JN |
CA5 7EX | CA7 2NG | CA7 5DT | CA7 8AX | CA7 8LW | CA8 9BS | CA8 9JQ |
CA5 7HD | CA7 2NN | CA7 5DW | CA7 8AY | CA7 8LX | CA8 9BU | CA8 9LE |
CA5 7HE | CA7 2NW | CA7 5EF | CA7 8BL | CA7 8LY | CA8 9BX | CA8 9LG |
CA5 7HF | CA7 2PD | CA7 5EG | CA7 8BS | CA7 8LZ | CA8 9DA | CA8 9LH |
CA5 7HG | CA7 2PL | CA7 5EH | CA7 8BT | CA7 8NA | CA8 9DB | CA8 9LQ |
CA5 7HH | CA7 2PQ | CA7 5EN | CA7 8BU | CA7 8NB | CA8 9DD | CA8 9NF |
CA5 7HJ | CA7 2PU | CA7 5ER | CA7 8BW | CA7 8ND | CA8 9DP |
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