WeLink with UK’s first WiFi gigabit service
AS BRITAIN’S most congested city, does Edinburgh really need any more roadworks? The capital regularly tops the UK table for time lost per year to traffic jams, driving residents and visitors round the bend. At last, there is some light at the end of the tunnel. WeLink Communications UK has launched Britain's first wireless gigabit service, bringing lightning-fast internet speeds to Edinburgh without the need to dig up streets.
We are inviting households and businesses in EH1, EH2 and EH3 to get in touch and find out about our range of introductory offers. WeLink is pioneering a fixed-wireless mmWave broadband approach that is much quicker, greener and less expensive to deploy than traditional fibre-to-the-premises broadband. It extends the reach of fibre into an area using the latest advances in wireless mesh technologies and network routing to deliver gigabit speeds for homes and businesses while avoiding the endless delay and disruption of laying fibre-optic cables underground.
Latest Ofcom data reveals that 7,447 premises in Edinburgh are unable to get 30mbps broadband. This makes it difficult or impossible for thousands of people in the city to work or study from home, access online healthcare, manage their money or keep in touch with friends and family. A survey by price comparison website Uswitch last summer named Edinburgh as the UK's “outage capital”, with its residents suffering the longest time without broadband per person. And estate agency Knight Frank this year warned the city was lagging behind other major UK cities in digital connectivity.
We are proud to be investing in Edinburgh. As CEO of our predecessor company IntechnologyWiFi, I rolled out
EdiFreeWiFi, one of the biggest deployments of free public WiFi in the UK which has attracted more than 1.15m users to date. We understand the local landscape and the big opportunity for supplying the kind of lightning-fast connectivity that households and businesses can depend on in this day and age. You can check if we can connect you to our service by visiting our website (www.welinkuk.com) and using the postcode checker.
If you would like to find out more, or sign up as a case study for our service, please write to me at hello@welinkuk.com