The business-to-business division of Carphone
Warehouse-owned TalkTalk is launching abusiness broadbandpackage for £10 per
month.
The company claims this is 58% cheaper thanBT's equivalent
service and it is targeting 20% of the SME market in the UK.
The 24 Mbps service, from Opal, gives business users priority
over the network.
Opal Office Broadbandoperates across the group's
next-generation network. The company has spent £200m on the
network, which now covers more than 80% of the UK's users and
supports more than1.4 million broadband customers.
TalkTalk has shaken up the consumer market by offering free
broadband packaged with its telephone service. Opal already has
100,000 business customers but expects this to increase with the
new offer.
Paul Lawton, managing director of Opal, said the company had
sold more than10,000 new connections since Christmas. "For the
first time we think there is a small business-grade product that we
can go out with at a low price," he added.
He said this wasthe first instalment of a raft of
next-generation services for businesses. "This is a building block
and once you get good connectivity you can do other things on top."
These included video, VoIP services, as well as hosted services, he
said.