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David Cameron of Pink Connect Watford has just connected a delighted Prontaprint with the fastest speeds on the internet. Pink Fibre Pro has given Aarif Merali (pictured right with David) upload speeds of up to 10Mb and download speeds of up to 40Mb!

“Our previous supplier provided us with a very slow broadband connection and we needed to improve the speed in order to cope with the larger file transfers that our clients were demanding. Pink Connect came in to evaluate our requirements and managed to provide the Pink Fibre service which increased our broadband speed twenty fold.” said Aarif.

“From the initial requirements gathering, installation and post-installation follow-up Pink Connect were extremely professional and competent while demonstrating a great deal of understanding for our requirements. I would have no hesitation in recommending their services and, in particular, their Pink Fibre service. If you haven’t done so already – go Pink!”

If you would like to know whether you too can take advantage of the fibre superhighway, just contact the friendly team at Pink Connect

As it heads towards that time of week when our roads and our broadband clog up with sheer weight of traffic and everything runs slow, Raj Deokar (Pink Connect Northampton) has some words of advice on how to improve your broadband connection speed.

There are many factors that affect speed of broadband. Some of the key ones are:

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Stuart Moore, Director of Pink Connect, Bournemouth, nearly didn’t meet this new customer.

Stuart says, “It was a wet Wednesday evening.  I had not had the best day and I was due at a networking event. When I arrived was “underwhelmed” by the prevailing atmosphere. I very nearly went straight home but after giving myself a good talking too, decided to stay and give it my best shot”

Half an hour later Stuart had a meeting arranged for the following week with a local business man who owns and operates a chain of 8 dry cleaners and laundry’s from an office in Bournemouth

Stuart continues, “I had in my mind to talk to the owner about his power requirements but during the meeting it quickly became apparent that his big issue was telecoms. The company had 3 different suppliers for lines, calls and broadband plus a rental charge for an old telephone system. I put together a quote for the Feature Plus Premium service, alongside line rental and broadband provision.  The customer really liked the fact that by transferring his business to Pink Connect the savings made on lines, calls and broadband services will pay for the VOIP handsets within 10 months. The other major benefit he liked about the proposal was reducing the number of his suppliers from 3 to 1.  The fact I am local and committed to excellent customer service also was a big plus. He signed to take the full package!”

So if you ever are tempted to take the easy option and not go to a networking event, you may miss out on opportunities like this one.

Editorial note: the expression “Thaz a face lik awet wensday” is thought have originated in Lancashire where Wednesday was traditionally wash day

R.P.Lovatt Insurance have again chosen their long term Communication suppliers Pink Connect in a deal that includes all lines, calls, mobiles, phone systems, ADSL and IT infrastructure. With this deal, Marc Lovatt has fixed the cost of his partnership’s Communication and IT budget for the next five years. Marc said “Pink Connect have been our chosen suppliers for over eight years now. As we have grown they have expanded our systems ahead of demand ensuring we always have the tools for the job. I am delighted to have secured their comprehensive services at a fixed cost with this innovative agreement. I recommend Pink Connect to any company wanting the best solution for their business communications”.

Management consultancy McKinsey has identified 10 technology trends that will force executives to anticipate and respond to their effects on their enterprises.

• Distributed co-creation moves into the mainstream
• Making the network the organisation
• Collaboration at scale
• The growing “internet of things”
• Experimentation and big data
• Wiring for a sustainable world
• Imagining anything as a service
• The age of the multisided business model
• Innovating from the bottom of the pyramid
• Producing public good on the grid

McKinsey said it identified emerging internet technologies, increased computing power, and fast, pervasive digital communications as key forces changing the management landscape back in 2007.

“Since then, the technology landscape has continued to evolve rapidly,” it said. It noted that Facebook has quintupled in size in two years to touch more than 500 million users. More than four billion people now use cell phones, and 450 million access the web from a mobile. Read the rest of this entry »

In a world of so much choice, the tools allowing us to make those choices are important.  One of the biggest decisions for a business in recent times has always been ‘internet’.  The internet is a complicated infrastructure, with thousands of service providers and hosting companies, all doing their bit to expand the internet and to provide others with the tools and information to do their job.  With almost all companies using the internet to some degree, it is important that as a service provider, Pink Connect Ltd gives their customers the best connection for what they need, and that our customers know exactly what they are going to get, and what other choices are available to them through our useful broadband package system.  For this task, some special tools are needed, and the most useful of these are the websites allowing us to supply information regarding internet connections to a customer, before they order it.

SamKnows is one of the most popular ADSL resource sites on the internet, providing a lot of useful information about specific connections, about exchanges, or about ADSL as a whole.  Their most useful feature for us is the Broadband Checker, which will allow us to estimate the download speeds on most connections before we install them.  The checker is very simple to use, just enter a telephone number, or postcode, or both and get information regarding that connection/postcode.  You will get a set of results, which you can browse through with the tabs down the left hand side of the central box, but the most useful of these is the “BT ADSL” tab, which will bring up a result like this.

This page will give you information on the specific line, such as whether ADSL is actually enabled at the local exchange, whether it is enabled for further services, such as ADSL Max, ADSL2+ and 21CN.  It will also tell us the speeds to be expected on the line.  All of these are important to learn as much as possible about the line, and let the customer know what to expect from their connection.  Another useful tab, is the “BT 21CN” tab, which will give details of BT’s new 21^st Century Network infrastructure.  The postcode search works in the same way, but the results tend to be less accurate as a postcode can cover a reasonable area.

Also included in the SamKnows website, is the Exchange Search, which will allow you to find the local exchange of any town.  This will also give you details such as which services are available at the exchange, and also which ISPs currently operate from this exchange.

A thriving  Limousine business wanted a professional Internet solution for their clients to use whilst on the move. Pink Connect were able to offer the perfect package in the form of 3′s 3G MiFi dongle – allowing up to ten clients to connect their PDAs, smartphones, BlackBerrys and laptops to a single discreet device, enabling  the firm offer truly mobile high speed Internet access. Call us today about taking your business’ wireless network with you wherever you go.

Original article from BBC

Britons are not getting the broadband services they are being sold, research by the regulator Ofcom suggests.

Its analysis of broadband speeds in the UK shows that, for some services, 97% of consumers do not get the advertised speed.

It also shows a growing gap between the claims ISPs make for broadband and the speed being delivered.

To fix the problem, Ofcom is revamping the code of conduct for ISPs and asking for changes to how broadband is sold.

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Bailey Classic Cars, the renowned Midlands Mercedes SL Specialists, have chosen Pink Connect to supply Lines, Calls, ADSL and Telephone System for their new Showroom and Workshop facility in Stockwood Worcestershire. “The flexibility of DECT handsets combined with the features of the new NEC System have already shown significant improvements over the previous set up” said Sam Baily, Managing Director. “We were missing sales and hire enquiries because we were speaking with visitors in the workshops or showrooms but now we never miss a call”. You can buy, service or hire a classic Mercedes SL by calling Sam and his team on 0844 414 2116.

Dormer House School has chosen Pink Connect to overhaul their existing IT ifrastructure in an upgrade that will see the pupils computer experience transformed. Security, speed and reliability are being bought right up to date with a state of the art Server that will trebble the working speed of on site PCs and see all data secure and backed up. Staff are delighted at the benifits this is already bringing in useability and reliability. Pink Connect are delighted to be providing this IT support at a special rate to make the upgrades as affordable as possible for the school.