BT OpenReach Contracts Returned for Countersignature too.

This morning we returned the Openreach contracts for their leased line products. We await the countersigned copies back hopefully soon!

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National Leased Line Providers

Part Two:

Think we might have found a cost effective leased line provider for you chaps. With some negotiation we think we should be able to deliver national 10Mb/s full transit circuits for circa 10K pa. This will completely destroy other providers current offerings at 15.3K pa and 17.2K pa...

Bring it on, we look forward to providing the service!
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BT Contract Returned for Countersigning

Today we returned our operator Openreach contract to BT for countersignature. Once this is done we are then in a position to be able to place orders for your customer circuits.

Having said that, there is still some back end work to be completed yet before we can go ahead..
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National Leased Line Providers

Earlier today I had a meeting with a potential National Leased Line provider. While they had a product set including national 2Mb/s all the way up to gigabit, they weren't really any more cost effective that our current national pricing with ATM hand off from BT and NTL.

Furthermore the guy spent far too much time telling me how their new owner had written any number of blank cheques post their acquisition and how much infrastructure upgrade they had done and how much better they were now than a year ago... That is his quote... Would you want a circuit from this outfit?! He left quite promptly....
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Banking - HSBC

Blimey, its like pulling teeth trying to get an appointment with the business manager at HSBC

It seemed a simple request to have a meeting in the next couple of days, but no, the diary is full until the middle of next week... Heck they must be making some money!
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Residential Routers and CPEs

Today we have been testing a range of CPE's offered by TP-LINK

We especially like the TD-8840 which is an ADSL2+, 4 ethernet port CPE with good management and oddly for a more budget CPE actually has a processor and OS that manage a good thrashing with p2p and similar apps with thousands of entries in the nat table.

We also like the TD-W8910G which is an ADSL2+, 4 ethernet port plus extended range wireless product, again at an excellent price point and seems pretty darn resilient as a consumer CPE.

They are currently being kicked very hard with p2p and sustained flows to ensure they are stable, but so far so good.
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Web Developer, Welcome

This morning we welcome on board one of our web developers to NireNet.

All please meet Claire. We will tell you more about her as soon as shes found her way to the coffee machine and whet our very dry Monday morning palettes!

She has a number of years of web development and brand marketing experience and I expect her to be taking over this talking to you real soon so I can get on with some proper work!
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BT Wholesale Login

Bugger. At the worst possible time BT Wholesale decided I had typed the wrong password too many times and it is a painful process to get it reset. Doh, will teach me to use post-it notes under the keyboard in future!

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Meeting with BT Openreach

Today we had a meeting with BT Openreach regarding contractuals over the circuits and such.

It is interesting that there is such a division between BT Wholesale and BT Retail these days where there really is a de-markation between them meaning they do actually buy products from one another and push wooden-dollars around the plc. Seems there is a touch of malice too when Wholesale has to call up Openreach and order a circuit just like any other comms provider does.

Still means we get the prices to pass on to you!
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Verizon Leased Lines

Ok, now I've stopped laughing, and can type again, I can tell this tale.

We had requested and been chasing a quote for a secondary leased line from Verizon

They finally came back today with an "offer" for an STM1 circuit (not what we asked for) at 155Mb/s (not what we asked for) at around 10k per month on a two year term.

I am not joking and that is not a typo, ten thousand pounds (give or take the pennies) PER MONTH..... OMG we are still laughing our socks off here... That is three times BT's pricing!
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Belfast Property Search

Currently sitting in a coffee shop in the Malone area using their free wi-fi! It's quite scary how much work you can get done when you start at 8am at your place of work and don't sleep until 9 then have a shower etc.

We've already toured a number of areas and some a terribly business unsuitable to be honest. We've put 55 miles on the hire car which isn't bad going for driving around sites, industrial and office parks since 9am.

Unfortunately our chosen estate agent for the day has managed to prevent us actually getting into any of the sites we are supposed to be seeing. The landlord failed to delivery the keys for the first one, the second he brought a massive bunch of keys with him, but none fitted and the third was just hopeless when you got there. Technically it was great, right next to our carriers' pop, but was disgusting, rubbish everywhere and smelt disgusting.

We are heading to look at more now, and will post more later.
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