UK ISP Hyperoptic Launch Half Price 1000Mbps Home Broadband Service

Hyperoptic, which is busy rolling out a 1000Mbps (Megabits per second) capable Fibre-To-The-Home / Building (FTTH/B) network across big residential and office buildings in the UK cities of London, Cardiff, Bristol, Reading, Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds, will today cut the price of their “hyper-sonic” packages in half for the first 6 months of service.

At present Hyperoptic’s network has managed to reach around 35,000 homes, spanning over 150 major property developments (mostly in London but now being expanded to the other cities), and they intend to hit a long-term goal of 500,000 premises by 2018 (note: most of this effort tends to focus on areas within a 15km – 20km radius of the city centres).

Apparently uptake of their service has been pretty good (although we don’t have an up-to-date figure), but never the less Hyperoptic are keen to drive adoption further and so they’ve decided to slash the price of their fibre optic based broadband packages in half (this offer will last until 6th July 2014). As a result their packages now look a little like this.

Standalone Broadband (No Phone)

20Mb Fibre Broadband
* Download speed of 20Mbps
* 12 Month Contract
* Promotion Code: hyperjune3

PRICE: £11.25 per month for the first 6 months (£22.50 thereafter)

1Gig Fibre Broadband
* Download speed of 1000Mbps
* 12 Month Contract
* Promotion Code: hyperjune4

PRICE: £30 per month for the first 6 months (£60 thereafter)

Broadband and Phone Bundle

20Mb BB + Phone
* Download speed of 20Mbps
* Includes Phone Line Rental
* Free Evening and Weekend Calls
* 12 Month Contract
* Promotion Code: hyperjune1

PRICE: £18.75 per month for the first 6 months (£25 thereafter)

100Mb BB + Phone
* Download speed of 100Mbps
* Includes Phone Line Rental
* Free Evening and Weekend Calls
* 12 Month Contract
* Promotion Code: hyperjune2

PRICE: £25 per month for the first 6 months (£37.50 thereafter)

It’s important to note that Hyperoptic are one of the few ISPs where Fibre Broadband doesn’t require speech marks because they actually do deploy a true fibre optic connection into your building, while many others like BT and Virgin Media use a hybrid-fibre approach (involves a final run of existing / slower copper or coax cable to your property). But equally Hyperoptic’s coverage is currently very limited.

One other interesting thing to note is that the non-offer price difference between the standalone broadband and bundles is tiny, especially considering that when taken by itself the phone line rental is supposed to add £12.50 per month to the cost. Virgin Media’s solo broadband options adopt a similar approach.

But if you are lucky enough to be covered by Hyperoptic’s service then, aside from making the rest of us very jealous, you merely need to enter the above promo code for your chosen package during the online sign-up process in order to get the discount.