Comparison
Both are fibre. They are not the same product, and the right answer depends far more on what downtime costs you than on the speed on the tin.
Side by side
Both deliver fibre to your building. What differs is whether anyone else is sharing it, and what happens when something breaks.
The honest test
Speed is the wrong way to choose between these. Most businesses do not need a gigabit. What separates them is tolerance for downtime.
What people get wrong
Common questions
Not necessarily. Full fibre often has a higher headline download speed for far less money. What a leased line gives you is uncontended, guaranteed and symmetrical bandwidth with a service level agreement behind it. You are buying consistency and upload speed, not a bigger number.
That the capacity is reserved for you alone rather than shared with other users in the area. On a contended service, such as standard broadband or full fibre, what you get can vary with local demand, which is why speeds are advertised as "up to".
Because most business activity now sends data as well as receiving it: video calls, cloud backups, large file transfers, remote access to on-site systems. Full fibre typically gives you far less upload than download, and that is where people notice the limit long before download becomes a problem.
Several times the monthly cost of full fibre, and the exact figure depends heavily on your address. Distance from the network and whether construction work is needed can change it enormously between two premises on the same street, which is why we quote per site rather than publish a price.
Yes, and for many businesses it is the better value answer. Full fibre with automatic 4G or 5G failover covers the outage scenario at a fraction of the cost of a leased line, though without the guaranteed speeds or the contractual fix times.
Send us a postcode and we will tell you what is genuinely available at your premises, and which of these makes sense for how you actually work.
