For retrofit projects, a speedy, free-of-charge desktop exercise which provides you with indicative costs for flood-fill WiFi coverage at your sites. Simply provide us with the following information to help us:

• Site name, address and postcode. Send as many as you like.
• How many properties make up the site.
• The age-group of the residents. Are they young? The over-55's, General Needs etc.

We'll provide you with the indicative costs for each and every site, including the upfront capital costs and the monthly ongoing charges. We'll tell you what Internet speeds your residents will expect at each site and can also provide options for increasing the speed.

The indicative costs have found you and your exec team favourably and you have decided a budget is available for a Community WiFi project.  Perhaps you have a smaller group of sites you'd like to act as a pilot? These can be surveyed first by our friendly engineers, or we can survey as many sites as you'd like us to. With boots on ground, Social Telecoms' engineers will visit the sites in turn, and with your onsite resources on hand to assist with access to key areas of the buildings, we'll collect the information we need to design the networks. Our aim is to provide strong, stable coverage to every area of the building, ensuring your current and future residents have a satisfying online experience for years to come.

We'll provide you with a detailed proposal with confirmed pricing, timescales and internet speeds expected. If we've come away from the survey with several options, we'll present these to you in the proposal. For instance, we'll highlight and explain the reasoning behind more expensive solutions, and we may well recommend the lower-cost option for the project. Remember, every building is different and can impact the way WiFi signals reach your users' devices from the Access Points we install.  From the building's general layout, including the quantity and proximity of corners to the properties, and the size of the building; to the make-up of the materials used in the construction of the building. The best value networks are those which are easiest to install into, using the least amount of hardware.

Contracts are signed, and the project is created for our project management team to take ownership of.  Our friendly team of engineers work efficiently and keep their social distance from residents and staff. We'll hand over a fully functioning network with signal-strength heatmaps. Your residents, their visitors, your staff and any smart-home technology you have can have unrestricted (or content-controlled) access to the web.