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Get Prices → 📞 0121 268 0121When businesses outgrow basic broadband, two options come up repeatedly: FTTP (full fibre broadband) and Ethernet leased lines. Both are fast. Both are reliable. But they're fundamentally different products, and choosing the wrong one means either overpaying significantly or getting a connection that doesn't meet your needs.
FTTP is a contended service — you share the underlying fibre network infrastructure with other businesses and homes in your area. Your "up to 1Gbps" line is the maximum available, but actual speeds depend on network demand. In practice, daytime business speeds on a quality FTTP product are excellent — typically 85–95% of the headline speed.
A leased line is an uncontended, dedicated circuit. The bandwidth is yours alone, guaranteed at all times, in both directions (symmetric). Nobody else's traffic affects yours. When you order 200Mbps, you get 200Mbps at 3pm on a Monday when the whole business district is online.
FTTP is a contended service — you share the underlying fibre network infrastructure with other businesses and homes in your area. Your "up to 1Gbps" line is the maximum available, but actual speeds depend on network demand. In practice, daytime business speeds on a quality FTTP product are excellent — typically 85–95% of the headline speed.
A leased line is an uncontended, dedicated circuit. The bandwidth is yours alone, guaranteed at all times, in both directions (symmetric). Nobody else's traffic affects yours. When you order 200Mbps, you get 200Mbps at 3pm on a Monday when the whole business district is online.
Many West Midlands businesses get the best outcome by combining both: a leased line as the primary connection for guaranteed performance, with an FTTP or 4G circuit as an automatic failover. This costs less than running two leased lines but provides better resilience than a single connection of either type.
Telexico's Assure X product automates this — monitoring both connections and failing over within 30 seconds without any manual intervention.
If you answered no to all three, FTTP with an Assure X failover is almost certainly the right answer.
Our team will assess your current setup and usage, and recommend the most cost-effective solution.
Based in Wolverhampton, Telexico provides full fibre broadband, VoIP phone systems, CCTV, AI services and cyber security to businesses across Birmingham and the West Midlands. Learn more →
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| FTTP Full Fibre | Leased Line | |
| Speed | Up to 1Gbps down / 115Mbps up | 100Mbps–10Gbps symmetric |
| Contention | Shared with area users | Uncontended — yours alone |
| Upload/Download | Asymmetric (much slower upload) | Symmetric (same both ways) |
| SLA | Best effort | Contractual (99.9%+ uptime, 4hr fix) |
| Installation time | 10–20 working days | 45–90 working days |
| Monthly cost (1Gbps) | From £59/month | From £380/month |
| Monthly cost (100Mbps) | From £34/month | From £180/month |
| Static IP | Optional extra | Included |
| Failover option | Add 4G backup | Add 4G/FTTP backup |
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"Switched our entire office phone system and broadband. The team handled everything, zero downtime. Saving over £200 a month compared to our old BT contract."
"Had failover installed after losing internet for a whole day. Assure X kicks in within seconds. Our team didn't even notice when the main line dropped last week."
"Our dental practice needed reliable phones and fast broadband. Telexico sorted everything in one visit. The AI receptionist handles after-hours calls brilliantly."
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