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Bristol Futures

Stephen Hilton, Service Director

Why We Need Ultra-Connected Smart Cities: Bristol’s

ExperienceStephen Hilton, Service Director, Bristol

Futures

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Bristol Futures

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Demand for Ultrafast

“This company is seeing a rapidly increasing demand for symmetrical, high quality, Internet bandwidth that is not currently being delivered at an affordable level”

Mike Prudence, Technical Coordinator, Films at 59

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Stephen Hilton, Service Director

Wifi

“Being able to access email, communicate with customers and suppliers while on the move across the city is vital to growth”

Guy Kingston, Federation of Small Businesses

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Fibre B-Net Council owned and managed 76km ducting

“Aardman quite often has broadcast type jobs that can require us to rapidly set up high bandwidth links to clients”

Howard Arnault-Ham, Head of IT, Aardman

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Innovation and Opportunity Ultrafast Demonstration Studio Living Lab Smart City Programme Service Transformation

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Bristol Futures

Stephen Hilton, Service Director

Gigabit Bristol Readily available Gigabit connectivity 5000 businesses 5000 University students 5000 Social housing tenants 7 million people passing through each year Citywide wifi network

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Bristol Futures

Stephen Hilton, Service Director

Thanks

stephen.hilton@bristol.gov.uk