Fibre-optic switchover to boost business services

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A DEESIDE telecoms and communications company has just expanded its services considerably after plugging-in to the ‘information mega-highway’. HIGH FIBRE: (L-R) iData director James Wilson, FibreSpeed account manager Dale Weedman, Flintshire County Council’s assistant business development officer Kate Catherall, and iData Directors Nick Cheetham and Chris Quayle inspect the company’s new FibreSpeed connection.

iData, based in Welsh Road on the Deeside Industrial Estate, completed the switch over to FibreSpeed fibre-optic communications network on Thursday last week. The connection is dedicated to carry vast amounts of data at near light-speed with lower associated costs.

Director Chris Quayle said: “People and businesses sometimes refer to their broadband and dialup internet services as ‘connecting to the information superhighway’, so by comparison we’ve just connected to the ‘information mega-highway’.

“FibreSpeed allows us to offer more services direct to our customers, which means we give them a better experience and better speed. We are also able to host larger, more complex websites and perform large-scale data backups extremely quickly – without this vastly-enhanced speed this would not be possible.

“This new fibre-optic connection will also enable us to launch a range of new products and services in the near future.”

The FibreSpeed cable runs underground from Manchester to Anglesey, providing a wide range of advantages over traditional copper telephone lines traditionally used for internet connections.

iData donation helps hospice children breathe easier

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Deeside based telecoms company has provided a vital boost, funding essential equipment for a children’s hospice.

Directors from iData attended Claire House Hospice’s open day on Monday this week (September, 19th, 2011) where they handed over £2,000 to children’s hospice, Claire House which will fund an oxygen concentrator machine for one year. Over 50 ventilation-dependent children and young adults from across North Wales, Cheshire, Merseyside and the Isle of Man attending the hospice will benefit.

Abi Smith, area fundraiser at Claire House said: “It means a huge amount to us to receive support from local businesses such as this from iData, without the oxygen concentrator machine we simply wouldn’t be able to help ventilated children. Each year we need to raise in excess of £2.5 million to maintain our present levels of service, with no guarantee of government funding this can be very difficult especially in today’s financial climate.
"Claire House has a 10-bedroom facility but due to lack of funds we are currently only able to operate eight beds. With extra funds from our shops, community, local business and the Claire House lottery which was recently launched we hope to be in a position of full capacity so we can offer our support to more families.”

iData hits the headlines

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We’ve just been interviewed by Comms Business for a profile in an upcoming edition and editor Ian Hunter has just put the following out in his newsletter:

I don’t get to speak to enough resellers so when I get an opportunity I generally grab it. Last week I had a long chat to one of the founders of iData a North Wales based reseller that has only been established since February 2008. You’ll read the full interview in the July issue.

Anyway, the company was started in a converted garage at the Dad’s house – brilliant! And by three guys that were essentially fed up with their lot working for a mobile reseller linked exclusively to one network operator. They thought they could do more with convergence so set out to prove it.

500 business’s rely and trust i Data for their business

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i Data are very proud of the honest, trustworthy and reliable advice we give to our business clients. With nearly 500 customers and growing, all our staff are thrilled with the combined goals we have achieved in just under 4 years and the feedback and testimonials we have recently received from our ‘Customer Satisfaction’ survey.

£50 shopping voucher with every iPad order

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To celebrate the launch of iOS 4 on the iPad and iData's new website we are offering a £50 high-street shopping voucher with every new iPad taken with a 2 year data contract.