14 March 2017
Hyperoptic has been chosen to provide ultrafast FTTP broadband to Battersea Power Station (BPS) and Bellway Homes new development in Welwyn Garden City.
The iconic BPS is currently undergoing a major redevelopment. The 42 acre site will include retail, restaurant and office space, along with 3.5 million square feet of mixed commercial accommodation and 4,364 new homes. In addition, there will be a six acre public park, town square and a new tube station.
Hyperoptic is installing its fibre all the way into the building to enable symmetrical gigabit speeds of 1,000Mbps – more than 128 times faster than traditional ADSL services. It says the deployment is already in progress so that the 865 residential units at Circus West Village, the first phase of the redevelopment, will have access to the fastest broadband speed in the UK from day one.
New home-owners will start moving into this first phase early in 2017 with the first commercial tenants opening in Spring 2017.
In a separate deal, Bellway Homes is also connecting the 163 properties at its QEII housing development in Welwyn Garden City with full fibre broadband from Hyperoptic.
All future residents at QEII will receive an initial free, three-month trial of the company’s 1Gb broadband and telephone line rental, as well as free evening and weekend calls to fixed UK landlines.
This is the first housing development to be serviced via Hyperoptic – previously, it focused on apartments and multi-dwelling units. The company’s services are presently available in 20 cities and towns across the UK, and it aims to deliver its ultrafast networks to more than half a million homes by 2019.