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In its first full set of recommendations to the Welsh Government, the Commission says that too much attention has been paid to promoting fibre to the home, and not enough on improving mobile broadband provision. NICW does not think the UK Government’s target of having fibre to every home by 2025 is realistic and is concerned that the particular challenges of deploying fibre in Wales \- where population density is lower, demand weaker and the topography more challenging \- means that Welsh households and businesses will find themselves at the back of the queue.  

  

Only 3% of all the data carried on UK networks is carried on mobile networks today, a much lower proportion than elsewhere in Europe. NICW recommends that ‘home’ mobile broadband connections could be a good, low cost option for business and homes in rural areas, on a permanent basis or until fibre to the home arrives.  

  

NICW’s Digital Communication Infrastructure of Wales report aims to assist the Welsh Government to establish a digital communications strategy to best meet the needs of Wales. In order to achieve rapid advances the proposed ‘barrier busting’ taskforce, led by a senior Welsh Government official and working with local authorities and other stakeholders, would be responsible for implementing many of the changes recommended. These include:


* Discussing ambitious targets for 4G and 5G ‘home’ mobile infrastructure with the mobile industry. This would include the offer of Welsh Government funds to support mobile infrastructure under a new, more flexible, ‘Gigabit Cymru’ programme
* Serious consideration of planning rules that are more favourable towards mobile infrastructure than those seen elsewhere in the UK
* Not, at this stage, spending more than £3500 to connect individual households to a fibre network and simplifying the use of vouchers for this purpose
* Investing heavily to improve the adoption of new digital technologies where the infrastructure is already available, but only after Audit Wales has reviewed the effectiveness of the programmes that already exist.


Commission Chair, John Lloyd Jones OBE said:



> “Digital connectivity has been vital during the COVID\-19 pandemic and will continue to be an important enabler of economic development and digital service delivery.
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> Businesses and households stand to gain substantial economic benefits from both fibre to the home and 5G. The quality of digital communications is critical in determining where new, high growth businesses locate and where young people choose to live. They cannot afford to wait and will move to where fast, reliable broadband is available.
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> Yet, too many parts of Wales still lack adequate broadband connectivity and opportunities are already being lost. Achieving rapid advances will require more direction from the Welsh Government.”


NICW’s Annual Report, also published today, notes that progress on the Commission’s other planned reports for 2020, on Transport and Energy, has been hampered by the understandable diversion of resources from the Commission to the Covid 19 effort. The report sets out progress to date in these areas along with plans for further work over the coming year.  

  

The NICW was established in 2018 as a non\-statutory body to advise and make recommendations to Welsh Ministers on Wales’ economic and environmental infrastructure needs over the next five to thirty years.







Translation:


 
Yn ei set lawn gyntaf o argymhellion i Lywodraeth Cymru, dywed y Comisiwn bod gormod o sylw wedi’i roi ar hyrwyddo ‘ffeibr i’r cartref’ (FTTH) a dim digon ar wella band eang symudol. Nid yw NICW yn credu bod targed Llywodraeth y DU i ddarparu ffeibr i bob cartref erbyn 2025 yn realistig ac mae’n poeni bod y problemau sy’n gysylltiedig â darparu ffeibr yng Nghymru – poblogaeth denau, llai o alw a daearyddiaeth anodd – yn golygu y bydd aelwydydd a busnesau Cymru’n cael eu hunain yng nghefn y ciw.


Dim ond 3% o’r holl ddata sy’n cael eu cario ar rwydweithiau’r DU sy’n cael eu cario ar rwydweithiau symudol, canran lawer is na gweddill Ewrop.  Mae NICW yn argymell y gallai cysylltiadau band eang symudol fod yn opsiwn rhad a da ar gyfer busnesau a chartrefi yng nghefn gwlad Cymru, naill ai’n barhaol tan y daw cyswllt ffeibr i’r cartref.


Nod adroddiad NICW ar Seilwaith Cyfathrebu Digidol Cymru yw helpu Llywodraeth Cymru i lunio strategaeth cyfathrebu digidol ar gyfer diwallu anghenion Cymru.  Er mwyn bwrw ymlaen yn gyflym â hyn, byddai tasglu ‘chwalu rhwystrau’ o dan arweiniad uwch swyddog o Lywodraeth Cymru ac yn gweithio gydag awdurdodau lleol a rhanddeiliaid eraill, yn gyfrifol am roi llawer o’r newidiadau a argymhellir ar waith.  Gan gynnwys:


* Trafod targedau uchelgeisiol ar gyfer seilwaith symudol 4G a 5G yn y cartref â’r diwydiant symudol.  Bydd hynny’n cynnwys cynnig arian Llywodraeth Cymru i gefnogi seilwaith symudol o dan raglen newydd, mwy hyblyg o’r enw ‘Gigabit Cymru’.
* Rhoi ystyriaeth ddifrifol i reolau cynllunio sy’n rhoi mwy o ffafriaeth i seilwaith symudol na’r rheini yn rhannau eraill y DU.
* Peidio â gwario mwy na £3500 i gysylltu aelwydydd unigol ar hyn o bryd â rhwydwaith ffeibr a symleiddio’r system dalebau at y diben hwn.
* Buddsoddi’n drwm i fabwysiadu mwy o dechnolegau digidol newydd os yw’r seilwaith yn bod eisoes, ond dim ond ar ôl i Archwilio Cymru adolygu effeithiolrwydd y rhaglenni sy’n bod eisoes.


Dywedodd Cadeirydd y Comisiwn, John Lloyd Jones OBE:



> “Mae cyswllt digidol wedi bod yn hanfodol dros gyfnod pandemig COVID\-19  a bydd yn parhau’n sbardun ar gyfer datblygu’r economi a darparu gwasanaethau digidol.
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> Daw manteision economaidd sylweddol i fusnesau ac i aelwydydd o gael cyswllt ffeibr i’r cartref a 5G. Mae ansawdd y cyswllt digidol yn dyngedfennol o ran ble mae busnesau newydd sy’n tyfu yn penderfynu ymsefydlu a ble mae pobl ifanc yn dewis byw.  Fedran nhw ddim fforddio aros a symudan nhw i ble bynnag y mae yna fand eang cyflym a dibynadwy.
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> Eto i gyd, mae’r cyswllt band yn llawer gormod o ardaloedd yng Nghymru yn annigonol ac mae cyfleoedd eisoes yn cael eu colli.  Er mwyn i bethau allu gwella’n gyflym, mae angen mwy o arweiniad gan Lywodraeth Cymru.”


Mae Adroddiad Blynyddol NICW, sydd hefyd yn cael ei gyhoeddi heddiw, yn nodi y daeth gwaith y Comisiwn ar ei adroddiadau eraill ar gyfer 2020, ar Drafnidiaeth ac Ynni, i ben am i adnoddau’r Comisiwn orfod cael eu dargyfeirio i Covid\-19\. Roedd hynny’n berffaith ddealladwy.  Mae’r adroddiad yn nodi’r gwaith sydd wedi’i wneud hyd yma yn y meysydd hyn ynghyd â’r cynlluniau ar gyfer y flwyddyn i ddod.


Cafodd NICW ei sefydlu yn 2018 fel corff anstatudol i roi cyngor a gwneud argymhellion i Weinidogion Cymru ar y seilwaith economaidd ac amgylcheddol sydd ei angen dros y pum i dri deg mlynedd nesaf.