Ancaster, Lincolnshire-based Satellink Ltd has launched a new international X25 service, which uses the Federal Express Inc ITC broadband digital network. It is available to Japan, Hong Kong, the US and Singapore among other destinations, and the company says that it is adding nodes in France, the Netherlands and Germany in January. UK connections are via British Telecommunications Plc’s Megastream, and Satellink says that its existing customers are using the service running at 56Kbps, although it has the capability to offer speeds up to 128Kbps. The company is pushing what it claims are its competitive tariffs for the service, which it reckons are particularly good for transmissions between the UK and the US. It claims transmission of a 3Mb data file per day to two US locations costs about UKP4,000 per month, meaning that it undercuts the competition by around UKP3,000. Citing its small customer base, the company also says that network congestion is less of an issue than with competing services.
