However, as they are a provider for professional organisations, as well as private punters, I'm sure they could have provided a suitable package. The only downside might have been the cost.
Regarding ADSL performance and reliability since all ADSL in the UK is provided via BT there isn't much to differentiate different commercial suppliers. It is BT who provide the connection and fix the problems, but it is Claranet, or Zen, or whoever who take the call from the customer if there is a fault. They simply then contact BT. The only real difference is the contention ration that the supplier buys off BT. Most residential ratios are 50:1 (i.e. 50 subscribers sharing the nM bytes of bandwidth); most commercial ratios are 10:1. If a supplier is trying to provide greater apparent speed then they have probably bought a lower contention ratio from BT; 20:1 or 25:1 or something like that, but BT would charge them more for that. So either their profit margin must be reduced or their charges higher; or they are making a loss. There is actually very little profit margin in the Telecoms industry, most of the money is made by the likes of BT; i.e. the people who own the physical infrastructure, the copper and the fiber.
The wonders of having worked in the telecoms provision market for three years!
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Date: 2007-06-26 08:53 pm (UTC)I don't know what the provision for:
However, as they are a provider for professional organisations, as well as private punters, I'm sure they could have provided a suitable package. The only downside might have been the cost.
Regarding ADSL performance and reliability since all ADSL in the UK is provided via BT there isn't much to differentiate different commercial suppliers. It is BT who provide the connection and fix the problems, but it is Claranet, or Zen, or whoever who take the call from the customer if there is a fault. They simply then contact BT. The only real difference is the contention ration that the supplier buys off BT. Most residential ratios are 50:1 (i.e. 50 subscribers sharing the nM bytes of bandwidth); most commercial ratios are 10:1. If a supplier is trying to provide greater apparent speed then they have probably bought a lower contention ratio from BT; 20:1 or 25:1 or something like that, but BT would charge them more for that. So either their profit margin must be reduced or their charges higher; or they are making a loss. There is actually very little profit margin in the Telecoms industry, most of the money is made by the likes of BT; i.e. the people who own the physical infrastructure, the copper and the fiber.
The wonders of having worked in the telecoms provision market for three years!