Industry Internet Area served UK, Europe, Worldwide Founded 1996 Type Limited company | Genre Company Profile Headquarters Telford, United Kingdom Number of employees 105 | |
Key people Elsa Chen (Director)
Richard Atkins (non-exec chairman)
Stephen Barclay (Sales Director)
Ian Brewer (Finance Director)
Mobeus Equity Partners
Steve Lalonde (Chief Technical Officer) Products Wholesale Internet Services Services ADSL2+ and Fibre
Broadband
Leased Line
EFM
GEA
Colocation
IP VPN
Domains
Transit
VoIP
SIP Trunking
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Entanet International is a British Wholesale ISP and is a member of the Internet Service Providers Association
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1996
Entanet is formed as a limited company in November after running as a separate business unit with Enta Technologies since February.
2005
Launches a 'Virtual Pipe' solution for ISP's wanting to buy IPStream capacity without having to buy a full central from BT Wholesale
Expands into Europe with PoPs in Frankfurt, Amsterdam and Paris. Joins AMS-IX, SFINX and De-CIX.
2006
All broadband customers on 'MAX' products are upgraded from 'up to 2Mbit/s' to 'up to 8Mbit/s'
Entanet begins to sponsor Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club
2007
Entanet is selected to take part in the test of BT's 21st Century Network, making it the only non-BT company taking part in the trial.
Entanet launches a business Ethernet First Mile product in the West Midlands using LLU copper lines from Openreach
2008
Entanet launches ADSL2+ services based on BT's 21st Century Network on 15 July. Though to date this is only available via the following areas. Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Manchester, Glasgow, Leeds, Cardiff, Bristol, Preston, London North West. The remaining eleven are scheduled to be live September 2008.
2010
On 3 June, as Entagroup celebrates its twentieth year in business, its founder and CEO, Jason Tsai has been recognised for his innovation and commitment to the IT channel by being awarded the title of Channel Entrepreneur of the Year by the Comms Business Awards.
2011
Entanet launches synergi partner portal website on 12 April. It provides resellers with account management and ordering, reporting processes and encourages knowledge sharing between partners and the company itself.
2012
Entanet launches 80 Mbit/s FTTC. The company also made improvements to their UK infrastructure by upgrading the capacity of its northern ring to 10 Gbit/s. They also announced a new colocation site in Slough.
2013
Entanet launch BT based unlimited broadband. They also launched Generic Ethernet Access (GEA)
2014
In February, Entanet announced a significant investment in its business, with Mobeus Equity Partners making an initial £6 million investment to support the £14 million management buyout.
2006
Nominated for three separate ISPA awards, but didn't win any
Wins CRN Channel awards "Specialist Vendor" of the year award.
2007
Nominated for five separate ISPA awards, but didn't win any. Sponsored the 'Best Portal' award.
Retains CRN Channel awards "Specialist Vendor" of the year award.
2008
Nominated for five separate ISPA awards. - Wins Best Consumer Email and Best Internet Telephony
Finalist for Specialist Vendor of the Year – CRN Channel Awards 2008.
2010
Ranked 78th in the Real Business Hot 100
Finalist in the CRN Channel Awards ‘Specialist Vendor of the Year’, Comms National Awards ‘Internet Service Provider of the Year’, Comms Business Awards ‘Hosted IP Telephony Supplier of the Year’, PCR Awards ‘Specialist Vendor of the Year’ and categorise of Best Business Fixed Broadband ISP, Best Internet Telephony and Best Business Customer Service ISP in 2010 ISPA Awards.
2011
Wins ISPA Awards ‘Best Internet Telephony’
2012
Wins Comms National Awards for Best Channel Wholesale Service Provider
2013
Wins Comms National Awards for Best Channel ISP
Won at the ISPA Awards for Best Business Fixed Broadband
Entanet were awarded Channel Marketing campaign of the year at the Comms Dealer Sales Awards.
2014
Entanet's marketing team won Best Marketing Team at the Comms Dealer Sales Awards
2015
Wins Comms Business Awards - Wholesale Service Provider of the Year - large
Won at CRN Sales & Marketing Awards - Best Vendor Account Management Team
Won at the ISPA Awards for Best SME Broadband
Voice
Formerly run as a separate company Entacall this division, now integrated with Entanet, provides traditional voice services such as non-geographic numbers (NGNs), carrier preselect (CPS), wholesale line rental (WLR) and VoIP.
Data
Entanet started as a simple ISP providing Internet Access to business and residential end users but has branched out and now specialised in Wholesale Internet Services for Corporates and smaller ISPs.
Broadband
Entanet's broadband serves two different channel partner groups, those who want to resell broadband packages and earn commission; and those who want to take Entanet's wholesale broadband to carve their own niche under their own brand. Entanet has been able to carve a substantial niche of L2TP delivered broadband services to smaller ISP's.
Leased Lines and Metro Ethernet
Entanet provides a range of different solutions when it comes to Leased lines and Ethernet (such as Ethernet in the First Mile EFM and Generic Ethernet Access GEA) solutions, but are specialising in providing wholesale solutions delivered to smaller ISPs using MPLS based solutions.
Colocation
Entanet's colocation facilities are based in Telford, London and Slough. At their headquarters in Telford, they maintain 3 bespoke data floors.