ISP Sky to Launch Broadband Product for UK Businesses in 2021

The Group CEO of Sky (Sky Broadband), Jeremy Darroch, has quietly revealed to Comcast’s investors that their ISP division will debut “our broadband product to businesses” in the United Kingdom “later this year“, which will be followed by a full launch in 2021.

The plans were revealed this week in a very low key way, while Jeremy was speaking to investors as part of Comcast’s (parent company) latest results announcement. Sadly, the information provided was extremely vague and, so far, Sky have not been willing to help ISPreview.co.uk fill in the blanks, but we can speculate.

At present the separate Sky Business division already sells high speed Ethernet services to larger businesses, as well as a business broadband solution for supplying residential lettings. In our view the new product thus seems likely to be a range of business broadband services for smaller businesses (i.e. the business equivalent of Sky’s FTTC, G.fast and FTTP based internet access packages for homes).

All of Sky Broadband’s major ISP rivals in the UK have been offering similar packages to SME businesses for many years, but for whatever reason Sky itself has tended to only focus on the residential market. Moving into the business sector would thus be a logical, if long overdue, step by the provider. As above, we’ll find out more when they soft launch it (whatever “it” is) “later this year.”