The ultimate broadband technology uses optical fibre from the service provider all the way to the home, known as fibre-to-the-home (FTTH). Housing providers, local authorities, utility companies and telecoms providers are becoming increasingly committed to widespread FTTH rollout for a host of benefits such as enhanced quality of life for citizens, environmental sustainability, local economic…
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What will your future staff expect?
Senior ICT managers across the housing sector are looking for compelling reasons for investing in technologies that enhance collaborative working, such as unified communications. In this article, the third of five on unified communications, the focus falls on a new generation of young people who are now entering the economy. Sometimes known as ‘Generation Y’,…
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IFRS – best practice or bust
The public sector is facing up to IFRS (international financial reporting standards) and seizing the opportunity to use the asset register to maximise business benefits. It’s true that the new IFRS reporting complexity, combined with an extraordinary increase in asset numbers, does present a series of challenges to financial departments. But in time, the new…
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Choice-based letting and telephony
Choice-based letting (CBL) is an updated version of the old points-based system for the management and allocation of social housing, and it invites greater participation from people eligible for social housing. This in turn means that local authorities and housing associations need to manage their housing stock more efficiently and also add more properties to…
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Some IP to watch over you
A core goal for any housing organisation is to provide a safe and secure environment for its tenants; the deployment of CCTV is an essential tool in achieving this goal. However, meeting this need while also rolling out other services and ensuring that social inclusion objectives are met is likely to be financially unviable unless…
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Driving efficiency through next-generation networks
Improving the efficiency of their internal processes and external services to tenants is a high priority for most housing organisations, particularly in the current economy and following pressure from regulators. This need for improved efficiency is a key impetus for the housing sector’s adoption of next-generation networks, which allow voice, data and video to be…
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