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COMMERCIAL PROFILE
Into the
FUTURE
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SME Channel Manager at
UPC, Gary David Jordan
outlines the company’s plans
for 2010 and beyond.
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ISN’T IT FUNNY HOW small changes make a UPC Business remains focused on continuing
big difference? For our customers at UPC it to upgrade its network to expand its Fibre
means a comprehensive service and product Power products and services together with
offering form one focused business unit. It also passing on real savings to its customer base.
means that we find the solutions that best suit UPC's latest results ending September 30th,
our customers, ones that are based on small 2009 delivered our strongest recorded growth
changes that make a big difference. For
Gary David Jordan, SME Channel Manager of
and expect this to continue into 2010.
instance, out of an estimated 165,000
UPC Business.
Cable is now the fastest growing fixed
companies in Ireland, 82 per cent are small and broadband platform in Ireland with growth
medium sized enterprises – roughly translating
“CABLE IS NOW THE
outstripping DSL. UPC has pioneered quality
that four out of every five firms in Ireland
employ less than 35 people.
FASTEST GROWING
and speed to be a big part of our broadband
product offerings with over 75 per cent of
Our business division serves this sector with a
FIXED BROADBAND
our SME customers signing up to
wide range of high speed broadband and voice
services tailored to meet the needs of a small
PLATFORM IN
packages delivering speeds of 10MB and
20MB respectively.
business. The broadband speeds available today
IRELAND WITH
UPC‘s infrastructure stretches around the
range from 6MB, 10MB and 20MB and voice
services are included with no line rental and are
GROWTH
globe. The company has built its own
international IP-backbone which carries data,
due to increase during 2010.
OUTSTRIPPING DSL.”
voice and video traffic via its advanced core
Looking back over 2009, it was clear that optical rings across Europe and to the USA.
Irish businesses looked to reduce cost in order
– Gary David Jordan
Since it was built in 1998, the backbone has
to survive the economic downturn. From become one of the top 20 IP-backbones in the
a communications perspective, UPC was well releasing a broadband product capable of world today. In Europe it is the second largest IP
placed to help businesses reduce cost, and in delivering speeds of up to 120MB at a cost of transport network, and in Ireland our network
most cases implement faster data and internet around €200 per month, which is beyond the has an extensive national fibre and wireless
speeds that enabled higher productivity. competitive capabilities of most large scale network that connects the five main cities,
This was a win-win for corporates, SMEs and networks in Ireland today. fourteen regional towns and rural Ireland. We
public bodies. So how does that position us We are a trusted partner to local government, also offer international connectivity to most of
compared to the alternative. Well, our health and education authorities and have a the major cities in Europe and the USA.
competitive advantage lies in both our high strong heritage of delivering reliable, fully
capacity optical national fibre network (fully managed data and voice solutions
owned with extensive reach) and the breadth to the corporate, retail and wholesale To find out more,
of product portfolio, which spans the complete sectors. Our clients include large blue chip call UPC Business
spectrum of business communications. As an companies to sole traders. As some of the most – 1800 924 220
internet service provider we want to deploy successful companies in Ireland, they all insist on or email
even faster speeds and be leaders in providing the highest levels of digital service and customer
sme@upc.ie.
a brand new ultra fast network. We will be support which UPC business have been
deploying DOCSIS 3.0 technology and delivering in Ireland for the last ten years.
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