Programme

Forward timeline

4G mobile auction and rollout

•  Late 2011/early 2012: Ofcom will launch a further consultation on the auction

•  Late 2012: planned spectrum auction

Rural mobile coverage

•  The Government will begin its procurement of new mobile infrastructure by spring 2012 and businesses and consumers will start to benefit from improved mobile coverage from early 2013 onwards.

Fixed broadband investment - private and public

•  BDUK expects to have the Broadband Delivery Framework in place by spring 2012for local authorities to run mini-competitions for Local Broadband Projects

•  The first projects to call of from the Broadband Delivery Framework will be: Devon & Somerset, Norfolk, and Wiltshire, followed by Suffolk

Urban broadband fund

•  Announced to create up ten "super-connected cities" across the UK with 80 to 100 megabits per second superfast broadband.