Large business broadband

Opal ADSL business broadband is part of our range of high speed ADSL solutions. To help ensure that other users will not affect the performance of your connection, you’ll get a traffic prioritisation service. All our connections offer the speed, reliability and technical support you would expect, and can be upgraded to meet your growing demands.

Ideal if...

• You need fast internet and phone services.
• You want to ensure that your monthly bill is for a predictable amount.
• You have homeworkers who need a fast, secure internet connection.

Business grade delivery

• Your business will get the fastest speed your line can support – a download speed of up to 24 Mbps and upload speed of up to 1 Mbps.
• During busy periods, your internet access is given priority over residential traffic.
• Our UK based business technical support team is on hand to provide advice.

Business grade service

• Your monthly data allowance of 100GB is equivalent to over 100,000 photographs, 1,800 hours of music or 1,200 hours of flash video.
• Your free wireless router is dispatched by courier and delivered by hand, or to your letterbox outside of normal working hours.
• You’ll receive security protection for up to 3 PCs or Macs, guarding against viruses, spam and spyware.
• A free static IP address means you can host your own website or email server from your computer.

Business grade tools: Create your own business package by adding any of these tools for just £6 a month each.

  Peak Builder: Unlimited calls to 01, 02, 03 & 0870 numbers, Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm.

  Off-Peak Builder: Unlimited calls to 01, 02, 03 & 0870 numbers, Monday to Friday, 5pm-9am and at weekends.

  Mobile Builder: 75 mobile minutes a month to any UK mobile (except 3 Network) at 20% off our standard rates.

  International Builder: 500 call minutes to landlines in our top rated countries at 50% off our standard rates.

 Inbound Builder: Your own 0800 number with 200 inclusive inbound call minutes a month.  Calls to your 0800 number are directed to your existing landline number.

• Give your business a national presence.
• Encourage customers to contact you by paying to receive their calls.
• Measure campaign success by tracking how many people call you.
• Additional calls to your 0800 number will be charged at 5p per minute.

  Online Builder: Get your business online and make the internet work harder for you.

• Your own domain name.
• Create a more professional image with up to 20 business email addresses.
• Build your own website with a choice of over 4,500 templates.
  

  Security Builder: Protect up to 6 PCs or Macs from viruses, spam and spyware.

• Daily updates automatically protect against the latest attacks.
• Stay free from spam email and phishing attempts.
• Personal firewall protects your private data protected against hackers.

On a legacy broadband contract?

Many businesses sign up for broadband then forget about it. Provided that it works most of the time and, if the occasional fault arises, it gets fixed reasonably quickly there may seem to be little reason to change.

However, research indicates that many businesses on legacy contracts are paying more than they need to for a slower service with a lower monthly usage than is available on a new contract.

Moving to Opal Office Broadband can reduce your business broadband costs by up to 50%, you could more than double your download speed, and your monthly data allowance could exceed that of your old service by a factor of 10.

Start up businesses: When cash is limited, a start up business needs to spend wisely on marketing. In a crowded marketplace, even the smallest business must communicate in a professional way with its customers.

While cutting costs - for example, asking a friend to set up and maintain your website - may appear attractive in the short term, it could ultimately damage your business: what would happen if your friend was unavailable to update your product range or the server fails? And what impression will your give customers if your website has a second level domain name like TelecomInternet.mycompany.co.uk and you have a free email address?

By moving to Opal Office Broadband and choosing our Online Builder, you’ll get all you need to set up a professional business website. Choose a top level domain name, e.g. mycompany.co.uk and receive 20 email boxes, e.g. jsmith@mycompany.co.uk. And if you have a domain already, we can transfer it to our hosting at no extra charge.

You can choose your website design from 4,500 templates and then edit it online, adding your own content with our easy to use drag and drop software - this means you do not need to pay a developer or become an expert in Adobe Dreamweaver. Your website is also maintained by us in a highly secure data centre.

Securing your data: Since 2005 the vast majority of attacks using computer viruses and trojans have been made by criminals. Their objective is to retrieve data, which will enable them to steal their victims’ assets or even their identities. Many businesses who are attacked in this way never recover.

It is a common misconception that free anti-virus software provides sufficient protection.  In fact, the only way to guard against the tens of thousands of new threats which emerge daily is to use anti-virus software provided by a specialist business with the resources to be constantly vigilant. This type of software costs around £30-40 per licence, per year.

Move to Opal Office Broadband and you’ll receive a licence for anti-virus software, supplied to us by F-Secure, one of the world’s largest and most highly regarded anti-virus specialists. This software also protects you against spam and against browser based attacks. You can protect up to 3 PCs or Macs. Additional licences protecting up to 6 more machines are available as part of our Security Builder.