Over a hundred housing developments across Manchester are now live with gigabit connectivity, courtesy of Hyperoptic, the nation’s leading full fibre broadband provider. Another 60 developments are currently undergoing installation or are scheduled for installation in the next six months.
Hyperoptic announced that it was coming to Manchester in 2014 and was among its first wave of ‘Hyper Cities.’ The 100 developments span the length and breadth of Greater Manchester and include a number of established iconic developments, such as the Beetham Tower, the Hat Box, Greengate, The Assembly (Cambridge Street) and X1 Eastbank.
Manchester city councillor, Kevin Peel, who has long campaigned to improve broadband speeds and connectivity in Manchester, said: “I’m delighted that after working to bring gigabit connectivity to Manchester city centre back in 2014, Hyperoptic is now available in thousands of properties throughout the city and other providers are now following. Access to high speed broadband is essential for local residents and we hope to see it available to every building within the city centre in the near future.”
Hyperoptic is the UK’s fastest broadband provider – its broadband infrastructure enables gigabit symmetrical speeds (1,000Mbps.) Unlike other broadband providers that only run fibre to the green box at the end of the street (Fibre-to-the-Cabinet), Hyperoptic installs fibre all the way into the building. This means that its customers can finally enjoy everything the Internet has to offer, without any worry of peak-time slowdowns, buffering and frustrating timeouts.
Hyperoptic offers a range of residential packages, including competitive broadband and landline packages, broadband only services and contract free options. Hyperoptic also has a range of market-leading business propositions, including leased lines, shared leased lines and business broadband products.
Tim Huxtable, National Team Manager, Hyperoptic, comments: “We have invested millions of pounds into our full fibre infrastructure in Manchester to give its residents and businesses access to a superior broadband experience. This is the difference between between night and day when compared with other part fibre services. In today’s digital world you need to have connectivity that you can rely upon. Buffering, peak time slowdowns and distance issues just cease to exist with our full fibre solution.”
Slow broadband speed at peak-times has been cited as the number one unexpected home-mover bugbear, according to a survey of 500 Manchester residents. For both renters and buyers in Manchester, poor peak-time broadband speeds is the biggest bugbear that would have put many of them off moving into their new property altogether, if they had known about it in advance.
Nearly half of renters (48%) would have avoided a property entirely if they had known that it had poor broadband speeds at peak-time. For over a third (36%) flaky mobile signal would have also been a deal breaker, followed by an unresponsive landlord (33%), noisy neighbours (32%) and loud road noise (26%). For buyers the following would have put them off if they had known about it in advance: broadband speeds (39%), mobile phone signal issues (22%), noisy neighbours (32%) and road noise (19%).
About Hyperoptic
Hyperoptic is the UK’s leading Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) provider, pioneering the UK fibre gold standard: the country’s fastest, most consistent and reliable Internet service. Its fast, symmetrical gigabit services are over 128 times faster than traditional ADSL speeds. Services are delivered via Hyperoptic’s own dedicated fibre network, which means that customers can always connect to the Internet at the speeds advertised.
Hyperoptic works with property owners, developers and professionals, designing and installing dedicated fibre infrastructure to new buildings, and retrofitting improvements to existing developments. Its award-winning services are currently available to consumers and businesses across 20 cities and towns across the UK. It aims to have its hyper-fast service available to over half a million homes by 2019.
Founded in 2011, the company was recognised for ‘Best Superfast Broadband’ award at the 2016 Internet Service Providers’ Association (ISPA) awards and has held the ISPA award for the last four years in a row.
