leased line pricing

Getting your quote is only part of the equation. Your internet connection is critical to your business.

2Connect provide a comprehensive range of leased line solutions that can be tailored to fit your exact needs.

We also provide a premium 100% availability service level agreement to reinforce our service offering and to ensure you receive the best pricing available, we operate a price promise.

This guarantees that we will not only match any quotes that you get from any UK leased line providers but we will also beat it for you! A first in our industry.

Leased lines and the prices associated with them have come a long way from where they first started.

The telecoms market finally got opened up to competitors to BT’s dominance in 1981 thanks to the government. The competition initially came from Mercury Communications, a subsidiary of Cable & Wireless and has grown from there.

1984 saw more changed as BT was privatised. OFTEL was also created with the main aim of ensuring fair trading between the competition and BT. Unfortunately, OFTEL ended up getting a bit of a bad name in the early days due to the fact that businesses though that they were too lenient with BT. A few of the reasons for this was the slow roll out of ADSL as this was classed as having a negative effect on BT’s ever growing ISDN service, plus LLU (Local Loop Unbundling) which could have caused huge issues for BT’s monopoly on ADSL provision and line rental.

IT took OFTEL 17 years before deciding to make BT offer leased lines on a wholesale basis! BT leased line pricing from that point on was never the same. The competition were now in business being able to market, sell, provision and bill leased lines in the UK themselves.

The dot com boom (and crash) back in 2000 also payed a major role. One of the effects is that it created several providers who could now undercut BT leased line pricing simply because they had their own fibre networks. OFTEL’s next step was to push for Local Loop Unbundling and sensible costings with regards infrastructure and wholesale services. OFTEL merged with a select few other regulators and OFCOM was born in 2003. OFCOM was the voice that, realistically OFTEL should have been.