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There are a bewildering range of business broadband services available in the UK, but some services are far more specific for business than others. Our guide below hopes to help you make the right buying decision for your business.
Contention One of the key factors when choosing broadband for your organisation is the level of contention applied throughout the circuit. Most buyers are aware that contention is the number of individual users or businesses that share the same slice of bandwidth from their ISP, but contention can be “hidden” by providers in many ways. Be very wary of providers offering 1:1 contention services at very cheap rates (i.e. below £100/month). It is not financially viable to secure 1:1 contention bandwidth at such cheap rates (unless perhaps the provider is making a loss on each sale). Typically, when providers sell very cheap 1:1 contention broadband, what they are actually providing is a contended line from the exchange, which then hands off to their wholesale partner and/or their own network. It is at this level that the provider can claim 1:1 contention. At the exchange level however, your business line could be shared with multiple users before handoff to your ISP.

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