Southampton City Council’s tenants now have access to gigabit broadband (over 12x faster than the UK average) from Hyperoptic. Hyperoptic originally installed its network in Southampton in 2016 and has since expanded its reach to the council’s social housing properties. 4,000 council homes now have access to the Hyperoptic network, with a further 2,000 properties…
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Connected tenants & connected homes
Housing Technology interviewed representatives from Aareon, AdaptEco, Civica, Hyperoptic and Insite Energy about the alignment of omni-channel communications with smart/IoT-enabled homes to improve tenants’ lives while helping housing providers’ operational performance. What should housing providers do for better communications and more connected tenants? Aareon UK’s head of digital, Tina Kennedy, said, “The number-one priority is…
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Social value and hyperfast broadband
What does social value mean? Social value is widely embedded into project calculations, not just within housing providers but also in local authorities, central government and devolved governments across the UK. Many procurement exercises now include social value weightings in their tender documents, and boards increasingly want to demonstrate how their organisation contributes to creating…
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Hyperoptic broadband rollout in Milton Keynes
Milton Keynes Council is using Hyperoptic to deliver ‘hyperfast’ broadband to over 4,500 properties in its social housing portfolio. Hyperoptic installs fibre directly into a property (fibre to the home), enabling symmetric broadband speeds of 1,000Mbps, which the company says is over 18 times faster than the national average. Nigel Long, councillor for housing and…
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Network Homes signs with Hyperoptic for gigabit broadband
Gigabit broadband provider Hyperoptic is set to supply around 20,000 Network Homes’ properties with direct fibre broadband. Network Homes’ tenants will have a choice of packages with speeds up to 1Gbps (1,000 megabits per second), which Hyperoptic said is over 21 times faster than the UK average. The deal with Hyperoptic will cover Network Homes’…
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A day in the life of… Hyperoptic
I wake up in ‘the project,’ which is the pet name for my flat in Notting Hill, currently being subjected to extension and refurbishment. The first priority is a strong black coffee and I am quickly on my regular walking commute to my company headquarters, which are close to Hammersmith station. Hyperoptic is the UK’s…
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