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Question About High Speed Internet In The UK

Hello to all,

I have a question that I hope some of you can help answer.

Currently, I am in the USA and know very little about the ISPs in the UK. My company is in the midst of setting up a streaming server for an IPTV system for our customers. We will need to bring in several TV stations that broadcast via satellite in Europe.

My question is how easy is it to get good reliable internet in the UK with the speeds of about 15mbps upload? And how expensive is it? I understand that this will depend on the location where we will be setting up our head end equipment, but I just wanted to get a general feel for it so that we can discuss it at one of our meetings.

Any insight will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.
 
BT's new FTTC and FTTP technologies both support upstream speeds of 20Mbps and at present about 40% of UK homes and businesses are within reach (mostly of FTTC). Quite a few ISPs use FTTC technology as can be seen in our new superfast broadband ISP listings category:

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/list.shtml

The service itself usually costs up to around £100 to setup, although the monthly fee varies depending on which ISP you pick and what kind of usage allowance you require. As a business you'd probably need a business provider, such as Timico, Claranet or Zen Internet etc., and should avoid consumer (home) packages as your service might fall foul of their AUP rules.

Just remember that FTTC, much like ADSL2+, would also be dependent upon your location being close enough to a local street cabinet to recieve the best speeds. A quick check of the related phone line by an ISP can usually give you the answer on that.
 
If that doesn't work out - and availability is very limited (not just for the Fibre to the Cabinet service, but actually finding somewhere with a line that's short enough and good enough quality) then there are three other options:

EFM - Ethernet in the first mile - availability extremely limited as the name of the product suggests. Circa £250 to £750+ per month. Symmetric speeds available. You'd need to be perhaps within about 1km of the exchange or less;

Leased line - available more or less everywhere. Circa £2000+ per month with setup fees ranging up to the tens of thousands of pounds.

Both of those are uncontended services which may give you the QoS and SLAs you might need. Also possibly:

Virgin Media Business cable service - it won't be an off the shelf package, but would be a bespoke service. Basically like a leased line but specially provisioned. Cable is often unavailable in business areas and parks, as the network was built for residential TV services.
 
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