Our Business is Your Business

Broadband connectivity doesn't only serve large scale business operations. It can also serve the purpose of providing a flexible work experience to small businesses and the self-employed. Having a broadband connection at home, for example, gives you the option of working from a home-office. This can not only save you a great deal on leasing space for an outside office, but can also offer tax breaks for your business related equipment used in-house, such as your computer and your broadband connection itself.  The Internet gives entrepreneurs the ability to source products, outsource jobs, and keep tabs on competition and to sell and service customers online.

In cases where you work from home and your company uses their own Virtual Private Network (VPN) - a private, secure network that uses the Internet to connect remote locations and/or users together - Groupe Acces is able to allow these "virtual" connections which are routed through the Groupe Acces wireless network to your company and back.

A high speed Internet connection allows you to:

• Browse web pages much faster than through lower speeds connection types such as dial-up;
• Have an 'always-on' connection, so that you don't have to stop your Internet work if you or a member of your family gets a call;
• Use new interactive services and games;
• Get tons of great features like streaming video on YouTube and music;
• Open up email attachments, such as various pictures and images regardless of their size, and do it quickly;
• Check your local weather or streaming news without any interruptions, slow download times, or computer freezing up;

Most connections to the Internet including DSL, Satellite, Cable are at an Asymmetric Broadband Speed.

The speed is asymmetrical which is due to the fact that the rated download and upload times are not equal. When viewing a given Internet web page, you are downloading the data from its server source. Groupe Acces offers a higher download speed (500 Mbps up to 3,000Mbps), so the sites that you are surfing load quicker and attachments will download quicker. The upload speed is of course slower, causing it to take a longer to upload data to the Internet like emails and files. Generally the ability to download and have a faster Internet connection speed supersedes the need for quick uploading capability.

Another benefit of "being connected" is the convenience and savings of using your broadband Internet connection for your phone line with VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) digital phone services. Many rural residents and some of our current customers cannot get a traditional phone line, so VoIP is the only solution.  VoIP allows you to call anyone locally, nationally, or even internationally - at prices far lower than traditional landline phone services. In fact, Groupe Acces is now testing its VoIP service which will feature unlimited local calls, you get to keep your existing phone number - or get a new one  - and take advantage of the many features you now enjoy with traditional phone service. These include voice mail, caller ID, call waiting, call forwarding, unlimited local calls, call transfers, 3-way calling, do not disturb, anonymous call blocking, caller ID blocking, call screening, call return (*69 service), speed and repeat dialing, ring lists, and many other services. Non-traditional phone add-ons may include fax lines, virtual phone numbers, toll-free phone numbers, and visual voice mail all part of an affordable monthly service fee.

The business of the Internet is changing rapidly and to the benefit of everyone. From working at home, just surfing for fun or phoning your customers, friends and family, most of our daily communications can now be done over the Internet. Our business is your business and your business is our business. The Internet lets us all work together.