Don’t lose efficiency with slow broadband speeds! November 8, 2019 – Posted in: Comms, News – Tags: Comms

Is your Broadband speed up to scratch?

In the modern age, internet connectivity is as essential to our works as running water. Regardless of being in the country’s capital, you might still be suffering from a lack of full-fibre broadband, which is holding back the output of your business and in due course is costing you time & money.

But there are alternatives available – just because the big network operators aren’t connecting your building to superfast services, doesn’t mean that you can’t get admission to faster services via various means.

SOUNDS EXPENSIVE…

Yes, as you would expect, running a devoted fibre line (a Fibre Leased Line) into your business is costlier when compared to out-of-date broadband services. Nonetheless! With most businesses, this doesn’t mean you have to increase your comms budget. If you are still using ISDN lines for your telephony, then you have some choices.

ISDN, still the staple of voice infrastructures for most businesses, has its end-of-life already in the distance following well over 30 years of use. BT have announced their intentions to ‘switch off’ all these services by 2025, and therefore drive forward the implementation of VoIP (Voice-over-IP) telephony by businesses up and down the country.

By choosing to bin your use of ISDN whenever your contract permits, you can benefit from the immediate cost savings, which in turn can drive the budget for the Fibre Leased Line.

BUT, WHAT ABOUT TELEPHONE CALLS?

By renovating to full-fibre, you will have the internet speed & line reliability to make VoIP a possibility. VoIP instead carries your voice calls over your broadband connection, and no longer over the copper ISDN cables.

Executing VoIP doesn’t have to be a painful & expensive experience – there are so many exclusive services and choices available these days, with such a competitive marketplace ensuring costs are kept to a bare minimum. Switching from older forms of telephony doesn’t mean you have to leave your contacts behind; you can swiftly & easily port these across onto VoIP, enabling you to carry on making & receiving calls as you always have.