BT leaves competition behind for UK broadband project as final competitor exits

BT has been left as the last participant of the EU funded Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) project after the last remaining competitor Fujitsu withdraws.

Fujitsu have claimed that added requirements have prevented it from having any chance of winning contracts in the bidding process.

Fujitsu was one of the companies that has been apparently blacklisted by the government according to claims made by the Financial Times.

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), which has the goal of making the UK’s broadband infrastructure the best in Europe by 2015, is now faced with only one major supplier with the removal of all other competition.

A spokesman for the Japense based company said: “various conditions surrounding the BDUK process, which we have discussed with the DCMS, effectively rule Fujitsu out of the competition for new areas”, the spokesman added: “Our focus now is very much on urban and city opportunities.”

BT has secured a further two BDUK contracts this week with multi-million broadband roll out projects in both Kent and Northamptonshire.

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