The UK needs Power!

With talk of Microsoft and Google investing in new datacentres for hosted applications I am concerned with necessary power upgrade that is required for the...

Customer Feedback

Nice to see customer’s discussing your company’s offering online – positive and negative comments. http://www.josephjburns.com/2008/04/30/fluidata-the-cheaper-alternative-to-leased-lines As with all services customer feedback is so important as...

Reasons for Technical Support

Some of you may be interested to read our latest statistics on our support at Fluidata. Being a business only ISP it is quite interesting...

SMBs ready for hosted applications?

Interesting article one of my colleagues came across the other day discusses whether SMB’s are ready for hosted applications. From what I can make out...

Business look to bonding

The industry seems to be waking up to the idea of bonding as the demand for higher upload and download speeds increases. Fluidata has been...

Working from home

Food for thought: http://www.itproportal.com/articles/2008/10/28/right-tools-making-telecommuting-possible/  

Cisco 7604

Fluidata  to help keep the internet ticking over. Well this is a picture of one of our new Cisco 7604 routers which will be brought...

Are businesses mad?

This week sees the launch of BT’s new promotion for businesses. Sign up today and get a free mobile dongle so you can browse the...

Less is definitely more

One of our most interesting products to be developed this year at Fluidata has been the VOX 2.0 service. For the past 18-months Fluidata has...

Fibre to the home

In one of my previous comments I talk about the report the BSG recently published regarding fibre to the home will cost £28bn. Well to...

Fibre will cost £28.8 bn

Interesting report out from Broadband Stakeholder Group which Fluidata has been a member of since 2004. Basically putting into context the investment BT has earmarked...

ISPs struggle with ADSL2+ rollout

News from the trenches is that BT wholesale (who supply ISPs in the UK with DSL access) has delayed activation for 440 exchanges across the...

Reactive or Proactive?

It has bothered me for a while that the telecoms industry on the whole is reactive rather than being proactive. This is true for product...

A fibre city?

I don’t want this blog to become a rant against BT but to back up my opinion further down the page as to why BT...

Hosted VoIP – why is not EVERY business using it?

And another one! The site actually has some good other news items as well, I hadn’t heard of them before but great place for me...