A full T1 line subscription means that a business organization has leased a dedicated line from the telecommunications provider to the office location. This allows him full access to digital voice applications and fast, continuous Internet connection. The costs though are a bit overbearing if we’re talking about a smaller company. For these organizations, a fractional T1 leasing option is available.

A fractional T1 connection is a T1 subscription but with only some parts of the line utilized. The phone company can offer such service to accommodate those that cannot afford a full T1 implementation.

Through fractional T1, different customers can use separate portions of an existing full T1 installation by the phone company. It is essentially a T1, so it provides access to the standard speed of 1.54 Mpbs. Thing is, the subscriber has limited or lesser bandwidth than a full T1.

Performance and quality are the same with a full implementation, but for a fractional T1 line, there is a bandwidth decrease of about 50 to 75 percent. The price to use such service is just about 5 to 15 percent cheaper from the cost of getting the full T1.

If your company is huge, the best bet is the full T1. For companies that are still getting to the point where they are taking off in the market, a fractional T1 may be more practical.

Fractional T1 offers the same clarity, reliability, and cost-efficiency. Companies that opt for the fractional T1 can have 1 or 2 of their phone line applications riding on the bandwidth, and the rest for Internet connection.

A typical company easily spends around $750 monthly to continuously utilize 8 phone lines in the office for business purposes. If this same company also maintains a DSL Internet connection or it still uses dial-up to connect, it will be more practical to convert these systems to a single T1 line for voice applications and dedicated Internet business.

Here are some of the advantages of going for a dedicated Internet access and voice over a T1 leased line:

• Everyone in the organization can enjoy the WAN (Wide Area Network) speed of 1.5 Mbps up and down at any given time.
• A T1 dedicated Internet access is faster and definitely more reliable than any analog or standard dial-up access
• Looking at the bottom line, a full T1 subscription is more cost-effective than using separate phone lines and DSL or Frame Relay.
• There is a significant increase in profits since there are lower expenses on telecommunications while having increased productivity.
• Employees are able to easily communicate with each other in the organization even if they are geographically separated.
• Customers can easily connect to the company for any business transaction.
• There is no waiting for connection to start up since the dedicated Internet service is always on.
• The business expands since there is a higher potential of making it big online through the dedicated Internet access provided by the T1 line.

More and more business organizations are leasing their full T1 lines for their voice application requirements and dedicated Internet access needs.