NextGenUs UK CIC
NextGenUs is the UK's pioneering Next Generation Access Community Interest Company, providing world-leading broadband services to local communities. The Withernsea-based company is a pioneer in its field, offering the latest in technological advances to provide telecommunications and data cabling networks across the country. As Hull Esteem Consortium prepares to deliver Hull's Building Schools for the Future project to the city, NextGenUs is readying itself to join the supply chain and bring education in Hull into the 21st Century.
As a community interest company, the first of its kind in the UK, NextGenUs handles the technical side of telecommunications services, building strong and successful customer relationships by providing a product that is an asset to a local community. The company's chief executive, Guy Jarvis, has already set the ball rolling for NextGenUs to assist in Hull Esteem Consortium's work, undertaken on behalf of Hull City Council.
Guy Jarvis said: "NextGenUs is a community interest company and, in line with the coalition government's current policies, it is great that a project like Hull's Building Schools for the Future is keeping money in the local economy.
"The founders of NextGenUs are born and bred locally and, as a local company with a large proportion of Hull-based employees, the company is committed to improving the city of Hull, both through our community improvement services and the work that Hull Esteem Consortium is undertaking in this project.
"Hull gets bad press in terms of education and jobs, so this project is ideal as it will create a number of jobs in the city, as well as obviously improving the standard of education in the city. If we were to work alongside Hull Esteem Consortium, we would be able to tie in with other projects we are currently working on, helping us to achieve our aspirations for the telecommunications future of the city.
"We are excited by Universal Access to Home Internet (UAHI) and the fact that this project is looking to not only build schools but improve local communities means that we would be able to extend our services to benefit the local community. We would look to give a family-friendly internet service to schools, which would give both children and their families access to the internet at school and at home, which will provide benefits to the wider community for years to come.
"We are at the forefront of next generation access for superfast internet, which we provide to communities in Hull and the local area. Currently, we provide a service to the families of RNLI lifeboat crew out at Spurn Point, one of the most remote communities in the UK, as well as using advanced fibre and wireless technology to provide the people in Hull the first internet access of its kind in the country."