FTTP delivers 1Gbps+ speeds with 99.9% uptime for UK businesses. Discover costs, benefits, and how full fibre transforms cloud operations, VoIP, and remote work—backed by direct expert access.
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Your internet drops during a critical video call with your biggest prospect. Cloud backups time out overnight. Your team waits five minutes to upload a client presentation. That's [5] £3.7 billion in lost UK business productivity every year, and your legacy broadband is the silent culprit.
Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) delivers full fibre-optic cables directly to your business location, providing symmetrical speeds up to 1.8Gbps with guaranteed [19] 99.9% uptime. Unlike hybrid connections that rely on outdated copper infrastructure for the final stretch, FTTP eliminates the bottlenecks strangling your operations—giving you the enterprise-grade reliability your cloud-dependent business demands.
[1] As of January 2025, 74% of UK premises can access FTTP, with [2] Ofcom confirming coverage expanding to 96% by 2027. This means your competitors are already gaining speed, reliability, and competitive advantages you're leaving on the table. With the [3] PSTN switch-off deadline of January 2027 forcing businesses off copper-based systems, transitioning to FTTP isn't just an upgrade—it's business-critical infrastructure planning.
This means your choice today determines whether you scale seamlessly with demand or struggle with connection failures that cost £900 per hour for SMEs and £4,500+ per minute for larger enterprises.
FTTP operates fundamentally differently from the broadband connections holding most UK businesses back. Traditional FTTC (Fibre to the Cabinet) runs fibre-optic cables to street cabinets, then relies on ageing copper telephone lines for the final connection to your premises—creating signal degradation, speed loss, and weather-dependent reliability issues.
FTTP eliminates copper entirely. Fibre-optic cables run uninterrupted from your Internet Service Provider's network hub directly into your office, using pulses of light to transmit data at speeds copper infrastructure physically cannot match. An Optical Network Terminal (ONT) installed at your premises converts these optical signals into electrical data your devices use—delivering consistent gigabit speeds regardless of distance from the exchange or time of day.
This means you're not sharing bandwidth with residential users streaming Netflix during your peak business hours. Your connection performance remains stable when everyone else's degrades.
According to [7] techUK research, businesses with full fibre infrastructure experience 13% GVA uplift in professional services sectors alone—translating to [8] £67,000 additional value per employee annually. [9] CityFibre's £4bn rollout analysis confirms full fibre deployment generates [10] £38bn in economic benefits over 15 years, with businesses in "levelling up" priority areas seeing disproportionate productivity gains.
For UK businesses still running on copper‑based ADSL or part‑fibre FTTC, upgrading to full fibre (FTTP) is one of the most impactful infrastructure decisions you can make. The difference isn't just speed — it's stability, latency, and the guaranteed performance that keeps your business moving when legacy lines falter. Here's what that truly means in practice.
ADSL delivered a foundation for the early internet era — but it was never built for the cloud‑based, real‑time applications modern businesses rely on. Its copper lines cap download speeds around 24Mbps and uploads at 1Mbps, making video conferences, large file transfers, and multi‑user platforms nearly impossible during peak times.
FTTC (Fibre to the Cabinet) improved things by introducing fibre up to local street cabinets, pushing speeds to 80Mbps down and 20Mbps up. However, the final stretch — copper from cabinet to premises — still limits consistency. Distance from the cabinet degrades performance, latency averages 10–20ms, and bandwidth fluctuates based on local traffic loads.
With FTTP (Full Fibre to the Premises), that last limitation disappears. Fibre runs directly into your building, delivering uncontended, high‑capacity bandwidth with zero distance degradation and near‑instant response times. Latency drops below 10ms, and business‑grade services run comfortably at 1Gbps or higher — with symmetric options for teams that upload and download at equal speeds.
This means smoother Microsoft 365 sessions, glitch‑free Teams calls, faster off‑site backups, and real‑time collaboration without lag.
FTTP's leap over older technologies is transformative. Copper broadband typically offers 99% uptime, meaning several hours of outage risk each month. FTTC improves to around 99.5%, but FTTP pushes reliability further with a 99.9% business SLA, reducing downtime to minutes per year.
Environmental reliability also improves: while rain, corrosion, and electromagnetic interference can disrupt copper performance, fibre connectivity remains unaffected by weather — ensuring consistent throughput year‑round.
Full fibre isn't just faster — it's ready for the future. As legacy networks face retirement under the national PSTN switch‑off, copper‑based services will be phased out entirely by 2027. Upgrading today positions your business ahead of that change, locking in stable bandwidth for cloud adoption, hybrid work, and data‑driven operations.
Amvia's team works directly with your IT stakeholders to design FTTP solutions that align with your growth trajectory — whether that's a standalone connection for a single office or a network upgrade supporting multi‑site resilience.
Every installation includes proactive UK‑based monitoring, guaranteed uptime, and no‑voicemail expert support — ensuring your fibre connection performs exactly as intended, day in, day out.
Business FTTP services from providers like AMVIA often include enhanced SLAs with automatic service credits, priority fault resolution within 5 hours, and UK-based expert support—features standard broadband packages never guarantee.
[6] UK businesses lost over 50 million hours to internet failures in 2023, with financial losses exceeding £3.7 billion—a staggering 400% increase since 2018 despite downtime duration dropping 20%. The culprit? Growing dependency on cloud applications, video conferencing, and always-on connectivity meeting infrastructure designed for phone calls, not data.
For example: HD video conferencing requires 10-25Mbps upload bandwidth. When three sales presentations run simultaneously on copper-dependent broadband, one inevitably freezes. FTTP's symmetric speeds ensure flawless video quality even with multiple concurrent calls.
Here's what else legacy broadband actually costs you:
[16] 15% of UK businesses now start losing money the instant their internet fails. When connectivity drops during an 8-hour workday, 39% of businesses experience financial losses—240,000 more companies than five years ago. For your finance team processing payroll, your operations staff coordinating logistics, or your sales team demonstrating products—every minute offline equals measurable lost revenue.
While you wait 45 seconds for Xero to load transactions, your competitor on full fibre accesses the same data in 2 seconds. That's 10+ hours saved monthly per employee—time redirected to billable work, strategic planning, or customer acquisition.
Microsoft 365, Salesforce, Xero, and AutoCAD demand 10-50Mbps per concurrent user. With 15 employees actively using cloud tools simultaneously, you need 150-250Mbps minimum—speeds FTTC struggles to deliver during peak hours. FTTP provides headroom for growth without performance degradation.
According to [12] Openreach and Be the Business research on UK SMEs, businesses migrating to full fibre report:
This means the infrastructure investment pays for itself through reduced downtime costs, eliminated productivity bottlenecks, and enhanced customer experience—before accounting for competitive advantages like faster response times and seamless remote work capabilities.
AMVIA's managed service takes Teams off your hands completely: expert platform administration, Direct Routing telephony, and 60-second UK support—backed by 99.9% uptime SLAs
Compare FTTP At Your Location Now →Major UK infrastructure providers driving full fibre deployment include:
techUK Infrastructure Analysis confirms full fibre adoption enables:
This means investing in FTTP today positions your business to leverage emerging technologies—AI tools, IoT sensors, real-time analytics—that competitors on legacy broadband physically cannot run.
You need internet that doesn't crash during video calls. AMVIA's FTTP services deliver 1Gbps speeds with guaranteed 99.9% uptime—even if your team runs bandwidth-heavy cloud apps simultaneously. Missed SLA targets? You receive automatic service credits—no questions asked, no lengthy claim processes.
You speak to UK-based connectivity specialists who understand your infrastructure—never voicemail, never offshore call centres. Because when your internet fails at 4:47 PM on Friday, you need answers immediately, not ticket escalation queues.
Our 99.9% uptime guarantee comes with automatic compensation if we miss targets. We monitor your connection proactively and often resolve issues before you notice them—but when faults occur, our 5-hour fix time commitment puts engineers on-site fast.
Scalable from 115Mbps to 1.8Gbps: Start with what your business needs today, then upgrade speeds without replacing infrastructure. This means as your team grows from 15 to 50 employees, your connectivity scales seamlessly—no lengthy installations, no service disruption.
Trusted by 2,000+ UK Businesses: Our 4.6/5 Trustpilot rating reflects consistent delivery on connectivity promises.
We're not the cheapest option—we're the partner who answers when you call and resolves issues on first contact.
Call 0333 733 8050 now to speak with a UK-based expert, or request your personalized connectivity assessment below.
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Choosing FTTP speed tiers requires understanding concurrent usage patterns, not just headline numbers. Most businesses underestimate bandwidth requirements by focusing on individual application needs rather than simultaneous demands during peak hours.
Recommended FTTP Speed Tiers by Business Profile:
Use Case:
Peak Concurrent Usage: 1-2 video calls, 8 cloud app users, background file sync
Recommended Speed: 115Mbps download / 20Mbps upload (FTTP entry tier)
Cost Range: £42-55 per month (24-month contract)
Use Case:
Peak Concurrent Usage: 3-4 concurrent video calls, 15 active cloud users, frequent collaboration
Recommended Speed: 330Mbps download / 50Mbps upload
Cost Range: £55-65 per month (24-month contract)
Use Case:
Peak Concurrent Usage: 6+ video conferences, 30+ cloud platform users, constant data synchronization
Recommended Speed: 550-1000Mbps download / 75-115Mbps upload
Cost Range: £62-80 per month (24-month contract)
Use Case:
Peak Concurrent Usage: Server hosting, sustained multi-gigabyte transfers, mission-critical always-on systems
Recommended Speed: 1000Mbps+ download / 1000Mbps upload (symmetric)
Cost Range: £100-200+ per month (requires business-grade SLA)
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Every organisation's broadband demands are different — shaped by the number of users, the cloud tools you rely on, and the intensity of daily online activity. Understanding the bandwidth behind each core function helps you size your FTTP connection correctly, ensuring performance never limits productivity.
This means your connection planning should start from how your business actually operates, not just headline speed claims. Amvia's specialists help model these usage patterns to ensure your FTTP solution remains fast, reliable, and ready for future growth — without overspending on unneeded capacity.
For standard office use — email, browsing, and light web applications — most users require only 1–5Mbps each. This level supports day‑to‑day administration comfortably, especially when coupled with Amvia's low‑latency fibre backbone.
Voice and video platforms have higher, more consistent demands. Each VoIP phone line needs around 3–5Mbps to maintain crisp call quality without dropouts. Standard‑definition conferencing (via Teams, Zoom, or Meet) typically consumes between 5–10Mbps per stream, while HD video sessions scale closer to 10–25Mbps. For enterprises running 4K or multi‑participant video walls in conference rooms, bandwidth may climb to 25–50Mbps per channel.
Cloud‑based tools such as Microsoft 365 or Salesforce require 10–50Mbps per user to ensure fast sync times and uninterrupted access to live data. Creative and technical teams working with CAD files, video editing, or large data transfers benefit from 25–100Mbps to keep uploads from blocking the network.
Heavier data workflows, including automated cloud backups, are among the most bandwidth‑intensive, often spanning 50–200Mbps depending on dataset size and redundancy configuration. For data analytics and real‑time systems integrations, throughput demands can easily reach 100Mbps to 1Gbps, ideal territory for Amvia's Business FTTP 1000 or symmetric fibre services.
FTTP contracts typically span 24-36 months with early termination fees. This means you should provision for 12-18 months of anticipated growth rather than just current requirements. If you plan to add employees, implement new cloud services, or expand video conferencing, factor those demands into your speed tier selection today. Many FTTP providers offer mid-contract speed upgrades (FibreFlex from some ISPs), but planning ahead eliminates performance bottlenecks during critical growth periods.
Transparency matters when budgeting connectivity infrastructure. Unlike consumer broadband with promotional pricing that triples after 12 months, business FTTP contracts lock in clear monthly costs—but understanding the complete financial picture requires examining installation charges, contract commitments, and potential build fees.
Standard Monthly FTTP Pricing (UK Business Market, January 2025):
Up to 115 Mbps download
Up to 20 Mbps upload
24 month typical contract
Up to 160 Mbps download
Up to 30 Mbps upload
24 month typical contract
Up to 330 Mbps download
Up to 50 Mbps upload
24 month typical contract
Up to 550 Mbps download
Up to 75 Mbps upload
24 month typical contract
Up to 1000 Mbps download
Up to 115 Mbps upload
24 month typical contract
Up to 1000 Mbps download
Up to 1000 Mbps upload
24 month typical contract
Best for heavy uploads
Monthly pricing variations are influenced by these factors:
Infrastructure Extension Costs
If FTTP infrastructure doesn't already reach your premises, Openreach and alternative networks assess build charges covering civil engineering to extend fibre cables from the nearest aggregation point. Providers typically absorb up to £615 in build costs, but excess charges pass through to businesses.
Example Build Scenarios:
AMVIA conducts pre-installation site surveys to provide exact costs upfront—no surprises when engineers arrive. If build charges exceed budget, we propose alternatives including business-grade SOGEA, bonded connections, or leased lines with comparable reliability.
Your FTTP installation follows a structured process, but timelines vary significantly based on existing infrastructure availability.
Pre-Built Infrastructure at Your Premises
FTTP Network in Your Area, But Not Yet Connected to Your Building
Infrastructure Extension Required
AMVIA provides named project managers for all installations—your single point of contact from order through activation. If installation reveals unexpected challenges (inaccessible ducting, conflicting infrastructure), we propose solutions immediately rather than leaving you waiting for callbacks.
Smart businesses don't cut over to FTTP on Day 1.
This means:
AMVIA's engineers perform comprehensive pre-installation audits of your current network configuration—identifying potential migration issues before they cause downtime. Our UK-based technical team then handles the complete cutover process, with out-of-hours scheduling available for businesses unable to tolerate daytime disruption.
Fact: Fibre-optic cables are physically more resilient than copper infrastructure
Copper telephone lines suffer signal interference from electrical systems, weather conditions (moisture causes corrosion), and electromagnetic radiation. Fibre-optic cables transmit light signals unaffected by these factors—maintaining consistent performance in conditions that cripple ADSL and FTTC connections.
Copper-based broadband loses signal strength over distance from the exchange—businesses 3km+ away experience dramatically reduced speeds and reliability. FTTP maintains full performance regardless of distance, as light signals don't degrade over the distances involved in local network infrastructure.
Traditional broadband requires functioning street cabinets, intermediate connection points, and copper cabling spanning hundreds of meters—each representing potential failure points. FTTP's direct fibre connection eliminates many intermediate components that cause outages.
While FTTP connections are technically contended (typically 32:1 for business services), the massive bandwidth headroom means even at peak usage, individual connections rarely experience degradation. Copper services at 50:1 contention with far lower total capacity suffer noticeable slowdowns when neighbors stream video or download large files.
According to Beaming's 2023 Downtime Report, UK businesses on full fibre infrastructure experience significantly fewer outages than those on part-fibre (FTTC) or copper (ADSL) services—with the [15] median time to financial impact from connectivity failure now just 6 hours for businesses with employees. This means FTTP's enhanced reliability directly reduces the £3.7 billion UK businesses collectively lose annually to internet failures—making the infrastructure investment a risk mitigation strategy, not just a performance upgrade.