Pictured above: James Pink

Innovative Warwickshire telecoms company, Pink Connect, has seized the opportunity provided by the roll out of fibre to the cabinet (FTTC) to make high upstream business-grade broadband affordable to small businesses looking to compete in an increasingly data-hungry environment.

James Pink, Managing Director at Pink Connect says, "We are delighted to be spearheading the delivery of such high upload and download speeds to our customers. This step change in data transmission could revolutionise the way some businesses work - especially in non-metropolitan areas which is where most of our customers are located. In addition to the impressive speeds, with FTTC we can guarantee a throughput rate of 12Mbps which, unlike other broadband connections, provides consistent performance your business can rely on!"

FTTC's upload speeds of up to 10Mbps enable businesses to use video, voice or VPN technology more easily and will support a range of high-data demand applications whilst download speed capability leaps to 40 Mbps making fibre considerably faster than any standard broadband connection.

James adds, "Getting your business on the Next Generation Network is a simple enough once the fibre has been run to a cabinet near you. We send an engineer to your premises to set the new connection and install a vDSL (very high speed DSL) modem. The whole installation process takes about 10 days from order to live connection and it costs a lot less than it used to when businesses looking for high speeds paid a high price for uncontended, dedicated solutions like EFM or Leased Lines. "

The exchanges in Nuneaton, Oxford, Rugby, Stratford upon Avon, Kenilworth and Banbury are all due to be enabled between now and March 2011.