Over 160,000 social housing properties now have access to Hyperoptic’s full-fibre broadband network. Hyperoptic said that it delivers the UK’s fastest broadband speeds of up to 1Gbps (1,000 megabits per second), over 21 times faster than the UK average. It supplies a number of housing providers, including A2Dominion, Hyde Group, Catalyst, Genesis Housing and Notting…
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Hyde goes gigabit with Hyperoptic
Hyde Group is soon to offer its tenants access to the fastest broadband service in the UK from Hyperoptic. Enabled by fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) provider Hyperoptic, the project will be piloted from September 2016 across six of Hyde’s existing developments in south London and two of its new-build sites in Southwark and Harrow. Hyperoptic said that…
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The ‘digital by default’ infrastructure of the future
For a digital inclusion programme to succeed, it’s imperative to first understand that demand is linked to supply – put simply, the priority must be the provision and availability of digital infrastructure, which will form the backbone of the programme. Unfortunately, many housing providers don’t realise that they have the power to affect what digital…
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Digital inclusion – Moving from ‘why’ to ‘how’
The issue of digital inclusion in social housing reached its peak last year, when former Housing Minister Grant Shapps pledged to abolish the digital apartheid at the ‘Digital by Default’ summit. However, ten months on, half of all council and housing association tenants in England still do not have a broadband connection. Evidently, the debate…
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