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Easynet wants to sell 100Mbps fibre to SMEs
INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER Easynet Connect is offering small businesses across London their very own 100Mbps fibre connection for the bargain price of £15,000 a year [*cough* Ed].
Apparently not having being told there is a recession on at the moment, the company is offering the fixed price deal to businesses within the M25 as an alternative to other deals where the price is based on proximity to the exchange.
Easynet says it will also consider extending elsewhere in the UK based on customer demand.
"Over the last fifteen years we have seen an unrelenting requirement for more and more bandwidth," extolled Chris Stening, managing director of Easynet Connect.
"Customers who get our 100Mbps service for a market leading price today also have the assurance that their connection is future proofed because of fibre's unlimited bandwidth potential. Fibre is also particularly well suited to those who need the most reliable internet connection as they move to cloud computing."
Stening reckons that this is such a competitive price that fibre is no longer "an expensive luxury beyond the reach of most small businesses." Clearly his idea of a small business differs somewhat from our own.
Following a site survey, installation takes about 40 working days and you will have to stump up a £5,000 installation fee.
As well as an uncontended connection you will also get a 99.9 per cent service level guarantee and round-the-clock network monitoring and customer support.
Somehow, we're not reaching for our chequebook. µ
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data rates by not de-compressing all your data into word/pdf and other pointless document formats before sending it.
But then you would have to understand it...
try aaisp (who have an online quick quote tool) or entanet...
With good ole BT charging us £10000-ish for a 2Mb link this seems good to me.
this will be an uncontended line with no limits to the amount of traffic up or down.
yes some of our euro buddies have better domestic services and i do envy, but for £15k p/a its a good offer.
would like to see the smallprint for any additional/unexpected dig costs.
oh and good luck with the 40 day thing in the eastend, the olympic building work is a priority.
It seems like the author and the people making comments have not considered the difference between a home connection and a business connection. This is an uncontended, 100Mbps up and down connections. At £15,000 this is really good value we are currently paying a lot more from BT in Birmingham for 10Mbps (remember this is not 10Mbps DSL this is an uncontended guaranteed connection).
If anyone does know of someone who can provide an uncontended, guaranteed, synchronous service (at 10Mbps or above) in the Birmingham area, please post the company name as I would be grateful.
100 Mb up/down or just 100Mb down???
Thanks for all those other useless comments with regards to what other people get in other countries, just look at Milton Keyens. They have no virgin connection and are lucky to get 2 Mb in most places with a BT line. Get the type writers, stamps and envelopes out its gonna be a while!
The current prices in Sofia, Bulgaria for fiber-to-the-living-room (PON): 100/100 Internet + IPTV + VoIP is 30EUR / month flat.
Businesses could get 1Gbps MAN (300EUR / month) in all 27 regional (big) cities, but having 1Gbps Internet capacity over MAN is still very expensive...
Erm, Finnish students in certain parts of the country can get a 100/100Mbps fiber connection for €20 a month.. Add a static IP service and it'll cost ~€50 a month.
I pay $1300 a month for less. I'd jump at it. I see a huge business case for it.
Where do I sign?