Leased Line Providers

The Top UK Leased Line Providers Revealed

We profile the top UK leased line providers, providing a quick overview of their histories and their networks. We look at BT, Virgin Media, TalkTalk, KCOM, Colt, Vodafone, SSE Telecoms and others.

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Leased Line ISP – Why Your Business Needs One, and How To Pick The Right One For Your Business

A leased line ISP provides symmetric, dedicated Internet connections.

Most ISPs provide contended asymmetric connections, using ADSL or cable. These are fine for consumers, but they're often inadequate for business. Here's why…

Most ADSL Connections offer only a pitiful upload speed, e.g. 0.8Mbps. That's a mere fraction of the download speed that is promoted in the ads for ADSL.

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Leased Line Providers Guide – How To Pick The Perfect Provider

There are many UK leased line providers you can choose from, including…

hSo
BT
Virgin Media
Colt
Easynet
Eclipse
Entanet
Zen
Vaioni
Claranet
Spitfire
TalkTalk Business
Daisy
Vodafone
Gamma

Key questions to consider when choosing between leased line providers include…

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TalkTalk Business Leased Line Facts

hSo is able to provide your office with Internet connectivity using TalkTalk Business leased line circuits.

We're a carrier-independent ISP, and TalkTalk Business is one of our suppliers. We're also able to provide services using the networks of BT (Openreach and BT Wholesale), Virgin Media, Colt, Vodafone, KCOM as well - cherry-picking the best options available at each location.

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Leased Line Replacement – Your Options, Plus Some Good News

Looking for a leased line replacement? Then I've got some good news. Leased line prices have fallen substantially since you installed your leased line, so you can probably get more bandwidth for the same amount of money you're paying now.

It may take several months to replace your leased line. So, it's often worth getting a bigger connection than you currently need right now, so that as your usage increases, you'll have room to grow.

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Virgin Media Business - Leased Line Provider Profile

Virgin Media Business supplies some of the circuits that underpin our leased line services. We also work with BT's infrastructure subsidary - Openreach, plus BT Wholesale, TalkTalk Business, SSE Telecom, Colt, KCOM and Vodafone, comparing wholesale quotes to find the right deal for each individual location.

Virgin is one of our more important suppliers, on account of the size of its network and due to its general lack of dependence on BT infrastructure.

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Vodafone Leased Line Provider Profile

You probably know Vodafone as a mobile network operator, but what some people don't realise is that it's a leased line provider too - supplying big organisations and Internet Service Providers such as ourselves with dedicated ethernet connectivity.

Back in 2012, Vodafone bought Cable and Wireless Worldwide, the more UK-centric part of Cable & Wireless that had been demerged from the traditional Cable & Wireless. This resulted in Vodafone gaining the customers of leased line provider Thus and broadband supplier Demon Internet.

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Leased Line Suppliers – The Main UK Ones, and What They Actually Do

There are a large number of leased line suppliers in the UK. These include BT (retail), Virgin Media Business, hSo, Colt, Thus, Easynet, Managed Communications, Eclipse, Opal, Entanet, Managed Comms and Zen.

Leased line suppliers usually lease circuits from telecoms carriers, and build services upon those basic point-to-point connections.