Business Broadband
We offer several types of business broadband, from the niche dedicated leased line rental to standard ADSL broadband:
Business Broadband
Gone are the good old days of listening to the beep grrr beep of the 56k Modem (v92 if you were one of the lucky ones). The dawn of a new era came in the late 90’s when Telewest first introduced broadband to the mass market offering a then massive 512kB service, with speeds 15x faster than dialup; the uptake was fast for the 56k hardcore users but the uptake was slower with the home user. The market remained static for a period while BT got their act together and formulated a plan to offer broadband at the same speed through copper wires requiring a filter to differentiate the streams. BT ISDN was available but was often very expensive and comparable to only 5x faster and 10x faster for dual ISDN channels to 56k modems. The main uptake of broadband was starting in 1994 when home users threw away their often un-reliable 56k modems and opted for the faster, more reliable broadband. Broadband was not just faster it was more stable too.
With the roll-out of broadband services accross the UK the whole face of online media changed; website designers used to spend a large proportion of time optimising websites for 56k modems, resulting in static websites with no user interactivity and it was not uncommon for images to take over 1 minute to load. This compared to today’s designers who pay almost no regard to how large a page is because they know broadband will load the content quickly.
Without broadband we would not have websites like Facebook, Bebo or even Flash websites (well we possibly would, but the page load times would be about 2-5+ minutes).
The backend of the spectrum allowed businesses to offer reliable, more cost effective broadband services swapping their more traditional sales operations to incorporate above the line (online) media.
Broadband internet access is a must for businesses and a business without an online presence is suicide.
There are several different types of business broadband available ADSL Business Broadband, SDSL Business Broadband, MPLS Business Broadband and the faster more expensive Leased Lines. Acceptable useage policy applies (AUP).
Related Links:
Moneysupermarket – Why is business broadband so important (3 articles)
Business.com internet web listings and broadband internet access
