By Nathaniel Dalby on Small Business UK – Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs

Sky Business has partnered up with  Small Business to take you through what you should be looking for in your business broadband provider and package.

Cost of contract and hidden fees 

The cost of your broadband is, of course, one of your primary concerns when you begin to look at bundles. When looking at the cost, it will likely be broken down into a monthly fee that runs for a minimum contract (which is usually 24 months but can vary).  

Some providers offer month-to-month broadband which you can cancel any time, but for business broadband, you’re more likely to need a contract. Sometimes price increases can occur in the middle of your contract, but planned legislation from the UK government could soon put an end to this. 

The UK broadband industry is incredibly competitive, so make sure you’re always comparing prices as you go before you settle on a specific bundle. 

Download and upload speeds

Other than cost, speed is the most important number for broadband deals. Most businesses these days require a decent level of speed, which generally means 100Mbps and over.

Thankfully, providers have realised this and rarely feature speeds under

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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

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