Hyperoptic, the UK’s largest residential gigabit broadband provider has announced that it will supply over 20,000 units under the management of Network Homes with the UK’s fastest broadband.
Network Homes is an award-winning housing association with over 40 years’ experience of providing affordable homes. It has signed its full portfolio of 20,000 units to Hyperoptic, which will supply new fibre connections direct to the homes. Customers will have a choice of a range of packages with speeds up to 1Gbps (1,000 megabits per second), which is over 21x faster than the UK average.
Hyperoptic has become the broadband provider of choice for the social housing sector. It has been a key focus for the company since its inception in 2011 as there is a huge market requirement to improve digital infrastructure and skills. Already, over 160,000 social housing properties have access, or are imminently due to be connected, to Hyperoptic’s full fibre network. This new deal will take that number closer to 180,000.
The deal will encompass Network Homes portfolio across some 36 local authority areas, across London, Hertfordshire and the South-east. It is the largest housing association (by homes managed) in the London Borough of Brent and in East Hertfordshire, with further large concentrations of homes in Westminster, Lambeth, Harrow, Hackney and Barnet.
Suraj Shah, Head of Strategic Asset Management and Planned Works at Network Homes: “We chose to work with Hyperoptic based on the high-quality service they have offered to us and our tenants. We already had a small number of properties connected to their network but based on our experience of working with them and great feedback from our tenants this new deal expands this to our entire housing portfolio.”
Floyd Widener, Managing Director of Commercial at Hyperoptic: “The social housing sector has been a key focus for Hyperoptic since our inception in 2011. Today, it is estimated that 11.3 million adults in the UK remain digitally excluded and 37% of people that are digitally excluded are social housing tenants. Connecting tenants to the UK’s fastest broadband at affordable price points is just one part of us helping to fix this situation — we also offer digital skills training and flexible products, such as rolling contracts and a low-price broadband-only service.”
Pictured above is the atrium lobby inside Network Homes’ The Big Blue development in Sudbury Hill, Ealing.
