Fibre Optic Business Broadband

Although fibre optic broadband is only available across certain parts of mainland UK, it is set to become increasingly popular and there are plans well under way to increase availability to more areas. As many as 20 million homes and premises could have access to fibre optic home or business broadband by the end of 2012. If your home or company is located in Kent, South Wales, or London, the infrastructure may already be in place and fibre optic internet available to you now.

Fibre optic home and business broadband will offer speeds of up to a whopping 40 Mbps. A good, fast ADSL2+ connection can deliver about 20 Mbps or a little more. Because signals transmitted through fibre optic cable don’t experience the kind of degradation over distance that those sent through the copper wire cables that make up the existing telephone systems do, it also won’t matter how far from the local exchange you are. As long as your company is located on the fibre optic network, business broadband will be just as quick 10km from the exchange as it would be 1km away.

We have an online tool that will let you check availability of the different types of broadband connection across the UK. Just pop your postcode in and it will tell you if there is the possibility of accessing the internet by a particular method. The potential benefits of fibre optic cabling for your business broadband connection are great, so it’s well worth a quick check to see if you can access them.