Business Focused UK ISP Telcom Launch Wholesale Division

Business broadband and communications provider Telcom has today unveiled its new partner business, Telcom Wholesale, which claims to be diversifying the wholesale carrier market by “offering an extensive route to up-stream carriers infrastructure” (inc. “boutique fibre network providers” such as The Loop and CityFibre).

As part of this they have also developed a new portal that gives their partners (e.g. ISPs) access to the various national carriers, for “critical, affordable infrastructure as businesses’ ever growing demand for capacity and bandwidth increases.”

The team behind Telcom Wholesale said they have an “ambitious growth strategy” over the next three years, which among other things include extending the wholesale offering to add cloud services, unified communications as a service and international voice and data.

Shaun Gibson and Doug Ward, Telcom Co-CEOs, said:

“The launch of Telcom Wholesale is a huge change in the channel market space and represents our commitment to providing an outstanding connectivity experience. We have recognised the numerous barriers customer’s can face in this marketplace and launched a service that we wish had existed, one that is crafted by the customer for the customer.

In a world of extensive automation we recognise the need to keep up with changing technology, which is why our portal blends automation with a human experience. We see Telcom Wholesale not only transforming the user experience of wholesale connectivity but becoming the most comprehensive tool in the space providing a storefront for the longtail of regional infrastructure assets.

We look forward to empowering our partners and in turn enabling them to help jointly transform the UK’s internet.”

The name Telcom may not be as familiar to UK consumers, although they have built a number of Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) broadband networks in order to serve large apartment buildings with Gigabit speed services via two off-shoot ISPs – Velocity Fibre and Black Fibre. The latter recently became one of the first to launch a commercial 10Gbps service for such homes (here).