SUPERCONNECTED CITIES Government Connection Voucher Scheme Government Connection Voucher Scheme Save up to £3000 off Superfast Internet Connectivity! Spitfire is an approved supplier of the government’s Connected Cities grant scheme, which pays up to £3,000 of capital costs towards upgrading SME business Internet connections in 22 cities in the UK, with £150 million in the pot to be dished out on a first come first served basis until the scheme expires in March 2015. This is a superb opportunity to upgrade customers to Ethernet or DualStream SF. Call us on 020 7501 3150 now or email [email protected] for a quote. The main criteria for the scheme are as follows: The grant will not initially cover any fibre “Excess Construction Charges” Circuit type: (ECC’s). However the application can be resubmitted with “ECC’s”, subject to the The upgrade has to provide a significant total grant value not exceeding £3,000, with improvement in downstream performance as the customer paying for any charges above follows: this. As usual, Spitfire will not charge If Ethernet, the customer needs to go for a cancellation fees if the customer decides not circuit providing at least double their current to proceed due to high ECC’s. bandwidth, with a minimum new bandwidth of 20Mb which can be upgradeable to 30Mb, Where a customer is eligible for free connection on a 3 year contract, Spitfire can ie, GEA is not an option and EFM only very rarely so. offer a discount of £52 per month in lieu of the normal £1,900 connection charge. This If Broadband, the customer needs to go for a will leave £1,100 available to pay for a router circuit which provides more than 30Mb, or and/or ECC’s. double their current speed if they currently get 30Mb or more. This means that VDSL The customer can’t have received more than and DualStream SF are the only Broadband £250k in grants over the last 3 years, needs products eligible. to turn over less than £40m and needs to have less than 250 employees. Costs: The grant will provide up to £3,000 in up Joint Application: front costs. These costs include circuit connection charges and router costs, but not Several companies can ‘pool’ vouchers any additional networking or engineering together to help fund joint solutions e.g. (e.g. Firewalls, routers). where a fibre Ethernet circuit is installed at a business park or building for shared Initial costs need to be more than £250.00, use. Each company will need to apply ie, this isn’t appropriate for Broadband separately and Spitfire will only be able to unless sold with a Cisco router e.g. invoice one company for ongoing monthly DualStream SF (VDSL data circuit with costs, eg, the business park management SDSL/ADSL voice circuit & automatic failover company. from one to the other). SUPERCONNECTED CITIES Government Connection Voucher Scheme Government Connection Voucher Scheme Location: Open to customers in Aberdeen, Belfast, Birmingham, Bradford, Brighton and Hove, Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, Coventry, Derby, Derry/Londonderry, Edinburgh, Leeds, London, Manchester, Newcastle, Newport, Oxford, Perth, Portsmouth, Salford & York. The customer can receive one grant per city. So a customer with multiple offices can claim for each office if they are in different eligible cities, but they can’t claim for multiple offices in a single city. Current Cities Live: • Aberdeen • Edinburgh • Belfast • Leeds • Birmingham • London • Bradford • Manchester • Brighton & Hove • Newcastle • Bristol • Newport • Cambridge • Oxford • Cardiff • Perth • Coventry • Portsmouth • Derby • Salford • Derry/Londonderry • York How to Apply: Check eligible postcodes here Spitfire will charge the customer for the https://www.connectionvouchers.co.uk/ VAT on all initial costs up front. Once the superconnected-cities/ The customer circuit is installed the customer and will then need download and submit the Spitfire sign a completion form and the application form from their individual customer sends this to the Scheme city’s website accessed via the same link. Administrators. Note that the onus to be accepted by the scheme and for Spitfire Approval tends to take just a few days, to be paid lies with the customer, and after which the customer has to should Spitfire not be paid within 45 days immediately place the order. for any reason, then we will invoice the customer and collect payment by Direct Debit. Full payment conditions are listed Call us on 020 7501 3150 now or on the relevant order form. email [email protected] for a quote. SPITFIRE NETWORK SERVICES LIMITED THE PRINTWORKS 139 CLAPHAM ROAD LONDON SW9 0HP www.spitfire.co.uk SALES 020-7501 3333 SUPPORT DESK 020-7501 3030 FINANCE 020-7501 3050 GENERAL ENQUIRIES 020-7501 3000 REGISTERED. No. 2657590 REGISTERED OFFICE: 239 REGENTS PARK ROAD LONDON N3 3LF VAT No. 801 9766 21 FULL TERMS & CONDITIONS APPLY – SEE www.spitfire.co.uk .