Cable & Wireless yesterday announced the launch of SOHO Suite, a selection of communications packages designed to provide small and medium sized businesses with voice, Internet dial up and web hosting services.

SOHO Suite enables growing businesses to gain benefits from a choice of three SOHO packages including SOHO voice, SOHO voice and internet dial up and SOHO voice, internet dial up and web hosting. Cable & Wireless' director of Corporate Communications & Market Strategy Charmaine Burgess explained: "SOHO Suite is ideal for those small and medium business users who are looking for the best deal whatever they choose - whether its voice, internet dial up, web hosting or all three options, with the reliability of Cable & Wireless' service and infrastructure."

SOHO Voice is an international telephone calling plan for small to medium size businesses and includes a one-rate voice plan, specifically to major business locations including the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and Ireland. The plan is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week and has no local access charges.

SOHO Suite enables small and medium business Internet users who require only one e-mail address to have unlimited Internet access for a low monthly fee (normally $69 per month, and is ideal for small and medium business which require only one person at a time to be online.

SOHO shared web hosting offers small and medium business users a cost effective and secure environment for their website, e-mail and File Transfer Protocol (FTP) applications which enable businesses to transfer large files securely. C&W will continue offering unlimited SOHO Connect Internet package for small and medium businesses requiring up to three e-mail addresses.