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Connected London
What the Mayor is doing for London's digital connectivity. Information for residents, businesses, and providers.
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Our vision for connectivity in London
We want to ensure that London is the best connected city in Europe, where affordable full fibre connections are available to all homes and businesses.
Londoners need to be able to access digital connectivity they require to take up increasingly digitally delivered services.
The importance of digital connectivity
SMEs able to access affordable gigabit-capable connections could see productivity increases of 7-10 per cent.
As suggested by the Journal of Productivity analysis. A Rightmove report also suggests that properties without access to higher broadband speeds see a 20 per cent reduction in their value. The number of connected devices – whether on the person, in the home, the street or workplace – is growing at a huge rate and Ofcom estimates it will increase 12-fold by 2026, with mobile data usage growing at over 30 per cent a year.
Digital connectivity supports smart technologies and enables them to meet the needs of Londoners better.
This includes collection, analysis and sharing of data on the performance of the built and natural environment, as well as water and energy consumption, air quality, waste, noise and congestion.
Current availability of gigabit-capable particularly for residents and SMEs, services needs a step change.
City, boroughs, providers and developers must all work together to ready the capital for full fibre and 5G, to cope with growing capacity needs and serve hard-to-reach areas
You can read more about improving digital connections to make London a Smart City and the Mayor's plans to tackle London's areas of poor connectivity.
How we're working to improve digital connectivity
The Connected London team, established in Autumn 2017, works with London's Local Authorities to help share information and better co-ordinate with digital infrastructure providers to enable investment into fibre and mobile infrastructure in underserved areas in London.
The Connected London work programme includes:
As part of the Connected London Full Fibre Network.
This scheme uses TfL assets to deliver a full fibre backhaul network, connecting up 400 km of underground tunnels, 580 km of roads and 80,000 street furniture assets. It will also make use of public sector property to make surrounding areas more commercially viable by funding connections through grant funding
To address coordination challenges and sharing knowledge across boundaries. The working groups are: North Central, North East, South Central, South and West London
To understand their priorities and issues, to improve connectivity across London.
To develop and implement the strongest digital connectivity planning policies ever.
By providing data, mapping, templates and case studies relevant to digital connectivity in London. These are shared through our workshops, in our newsletters and on our webpages.
You can read more about improving digital connections to make London a Smart City and the Mayor's plans to tackle London's areas of poor connectivity, or browse the pages below to find out more about digital connectivity events, resources and current broadband coverage.
Find a list of events organised by the Connected London Team.
Find out more about the coverage of fixed line broadband services in London.
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Contact us
If you have any questions, you can get in touch with the Connected London team at [email protected].