By Nathaniel Dalby on Small Business UK – Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs
See if you recognise this: you arrive at work in the morning to find colleagues twiddling their thumbs. You ask what the problem is and receive the time-honoured answer, ‘the internet’s down’.
Broadband outage is a problem that can wreck your working day, but now business broadband is a solution which many small businesses can take advantage of, whether based in a hairdresser, restaurant, café, newsagent or a home office.
We’ve collected some of the best reasons to switch to business broadband and how it can help your company, whether you’re scaling up or just starting.
Unique features
Business broadband offers a variety of features that you don’t usually get with standard packages, such as “always-on” internet. This, as the name suggests, protects organisations from the scourge of downtime by providing continuous digital access even when connectivity glitches are occurring.
It does this by automatically switching to a back-up 4G mobile connection, meaning a network outage which once brought work to a standstill is barely even noticeable. With Sky Business, 4G back-up keeps your key devices running during an outage, so disruption is minimised.
Sky Business broadband is one of