We are a small business and have existing copper lines. Being pestered to change to fibre which we are now planning to do. We have an existing telecomms provider (not BT) who have quoted me around £90/month for broadband with 2 x reconditioned handsets (as the reconditioned ones are cheaper than new, they tell me and they can save us £10/month off the bill by doing this). I'm not sure if this is a keen price or not!? We currently have one business number (with 2 x lines), so 2 people can call out or dial in at the same time. We need to be able to do the usual, put calls on hold, transfer between the 2 staff internally (who are in the same office). Other than that, nothing complicated. Our fax will go , as will our mag bell. Our card machine runs off wifi and also 4G.
Who pays for the fibre broadband to be put into our premises? Is this Open Reach or does our current provider pay for this? Or do we have to pay for it directly? If I change to another provider, would they charge us for putting fibre in?
Can I not just get fibre broadband off anyone (and would they pay to put the fibre in?) and get our own voip phones ? Our provider is telling me that we wouldn't be able to programme our our phones, I think they mentioned supplying us with Sogea phones? I can see that we can buy voip phones from between £45 and £70 each.
Any help or guidance appreciated.
