Following closely on the heels of the price announcement for the full fibre
product from BT Retail, Zen has announced its Fibre Enterprise package aimed at
businesses and home workers.
The fibre to the premises (FTTP/FTTH) service will initially only be
available on four of the exchanges that Openreach has its FTTH product,
expanding to seven by the end of year. Two product variants are available,
Enterprise a 100 Mbps download, 15 Mbps upload package with 500 GB download
allowance for £70+VAT, and Enterprise+ which doubles upload speeds to 30 Mbps
for £95+VAT a month.
Obviously the service is considerably more expensive than the BT Infinity
Option 3 service, and is not unlimited, but Option 3 is not currently available
to businesses and there will be home workers who value the lack of traffic
management and other aspects of Zen’s service.
Compared to ten years ago, the progress is astounding, since a 0.5 Mbps
service which meant a maximum allowance of 150 GB if ran flat out 24/7/31
costed £50 then to get a product that is 200 times faster and allows for triple
the usage level.
At this time the Enterprise products have not made it onto the Zen website, only PC Pro appears to have the pricing.
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Awesome 🙂
Why do ISP’s even have download allowances still? Almost all ISP’s say only 1% of users use more than 30gb or whatever they claim, why bother capping it for that 1% then? Surely we must have reached the stage in technology where they can handle a few people downloading?
Bandwidth isn’t free, especially when you have to pay BT a load of £££ for it.
Go Team Zen.
It is not just BT, inside data centres when BT are not involved it costs money.
Data costs money, and if it’s going through BT kit that makes the data very expensive.
pricey…
“Compared to ten years ago, the progress is astounding, since a 0.5 Mbps service which meant a maximum allowance of 150 GB if ran flat out 24/7/31 costed £50 then to get a product that is 200 times faster and allows for triple the usage level.”
Also factor in that the purchasing power of your pound has dropped since then.
James1o1o BT Wholesale charge ISPs £48.55 PER Mb/sec PER MONTH, an FTTP line can use up to 100Mb/sec (actually 110) so a user could run up a bandwidth bill on behalf of the ISP of almost 5 grand every month.
Funnily enough I don’t wander why ISPs have bandwidth limits, I wonder how long BTW are going to get away with this.
P.S. the end user could cause a bill that high without running flat out all month simply by running at maximum at the same time as the ISPs peak usage occurs as ISPs have to buy bandwidth to cope with the peaks.
@Rocklett
As long as we keep voting in politicians that keep using quick fixes for complex issues.
Not sure what you mean Rocklett, how long as BT going to get away with making money? Erm probably as long as possible isn’t that the idea of business?
The pricing on this is just ridiculous. In Romania FTTB (Fibre to The Block) for 100Mbit is about €8 per month or £7-8. Openreach and ISPs need to get a handle on the costs of next gen broadband services.
See comments on other item re Romania.
Also, FTTB is not the same as FTTP as with FTTB the whole block are sharing a single link, often via copper within the building. With FTTP each residence gets its own fibre link, so a very different proposition.
@themanstan, New_Londoner – Wrong. From the HyperOptic FAQ.
Q: What kind of fibre network do you use?
A: We install a Fibre-To-The-Building (FTTB) network. This means we run fibre optics all the way to the basement of your property, instead of a cabinet at the end of your street. Within the building we use Ethernet cabling or fibre depending on its characteristics, both offer the same throughput at this usage. In your premise you will be presented with a single Ethernet port.
@New_Londoner – Nothing about FTTB says you can’t terminate the same number of fibres inbound as the number of flats you wish to serve with ethernet, although it’d be fairly unnecessary.
Not worng…
wrong, even…
And, where exactly I am wrong?