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  • Closed consultation Extending Broadband across Northern Ireland - "Project Stratum"

    Topics:
    • Telecoms, 
    • Broadband policy

    Consultation closed Consultation opened 3 December 2018, 11.52 am and closed 14 January 2019, 12.00 pm

    Summary

    On 3 December 2018, the Department for the Economy (DfE) opened a consultation to assess the availability of broadband services across Northern Ireland. This consultation was intended to help in the development of Project Stratum which, through utilising funding made available as a result of the Confidence and Supply Agreement, aims to improve broadband connectivity by extending Next Generation Access (NGA) broadband infrastructure across Northern Ireland.

    Documents

    • Addendum to Departmental response - Project Stratum consultation Adobe PDF (45 KB)
    • Revised Annex 1 - white postcodes Adobe PDF (341 KB)
    • Revised Annex 2 - grey postcodes Adobe PDF (811 KB)
    • Revised Annex 3 - black postcodes Adobe PDF (386 KB)
    • Revised Annex 4 - Maps by NGA classification Adobe PDF (808 KB)
    • Addendum - Annex 5 - postcodes no longer containing NGA White premises Adobe PDF (100 KB)
    • Departmental response - Project Stratum consultation Adobe PDF (613 KB)
    • Annex 1 - NGA - white postcodes Adobe PDF (760 KB)
    • Annex 2 - NGA - grey postcodes Adobe PDF (1 MB)
    • Annex 3 - NGA - black postcodes Adobe PDF (709 KB)
    • Annex 4 - maps by NGA classification Adobe PDF (934 KB)
    • Project Stratum - public consultation document Adobe PDF (491 KB)
    • Project Stratum - consultation summary Adobe PDF (194 KB)
    • White postcodes - no qualifying broadband infrastructure Adobe PDF (353 KB)
    • Grey postcodes - only one infrastructure in place Adobe PDF (631 KB)
    • Black postcodes - more than one infrastructure in place Adobe PDF (352 KB)
    • Postcodes under review Adobe PDF (30 KB)
    • Broadband suppliers map Adobe PDF (2 MB)
    • List of Council Offices where hard copies of the postcode list can be viewed Adobe PDF (196 KB)

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    Consultation description

    16 December 2019 - The results of this consultation (plus 4 annexes) can be found below along with the documents from the consultation.

    5 February 2020 - Addendum to Department’s Response to Open Market Review and Public Consultation Regarding Project Stratum

    This addendum has been created to update the response issued by the Department for the Economy to the State aid Public Consultation (SaPC) regarding Project Stratum. The key outputs from this consultation have been updated due to new information provided to the Department that has a material impact on the intervention area identified following the SaPC. Further details can be found in the document listed immediately below.

    This consultation is now closed.

    Ways to respond

    Consultation closed — responses are no longer being accepted.

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