Cheaper broadband???

Last month Carphone Warehouse/Talk Talk had an offer of £14.99 for a
1MB/2GB service, with free phone calls thrown in. Now Tiscali have
essentially the same offer, for their dial up customers. Both are 12
month contracts.
Would I be correct in thinking that the only reason for this is an
anticipated drop in BB subscription rates in the near future??

(E-Mail Removed) (Rob) wrote in news:18e7e4b7.0504151330.40779f9
@posting.google.com:

> Would I be correct in thinking that the only reason for this is an
> anticipated drop in BB subscription rates in the near future??

Not really, the cap means the product is far more cost effective than
regular products so they can make as much money - if not more when
offering it cheaper. I'd guess the free calls are to get people to use
the phone service and they'll make the money back off calls outside of
the free allocation (like mobile contracts).

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On 15 Apr 2005 21:34:19 GMT, cw <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>(E-Mail Removed) (Rob) wrote in news:18e7e4b7.0504151330.40779f9
>@posting.google.com:
>
>> Would I be correct in thinking that the only reason for this is an
>> anticipated drop in BB subscription rates in the near future??
>
>Not really, the cap means the product is far more cost effective than
>regular products so they can make as much money - if not more when
>offering it cheaper. I'd guess the free calls are to get people to use
>the phone service and they'll make the money back off calls outside of
>the free allocation (like mobile contracts).

Yup..... sounds reasonable to me. UKonline.net are doing 512K for 9.99
BTW - and you dont have to take expensive or restrictive calls to take
up....









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On 16 Apr 2005 01:45, guv <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>UKonline.net are doing 512K for 9.99 BTW - and you dont have to take
>expensive or restrictive calls to take up....

but unlike TalkTalk or Tiscali, they have a different price in areas where
the connection is using BT Wholesale kit, instead of Easynet LLU Stream at
one of 250-300 exchanges around the country... so 9.99/month is available,
but to around 5m home and business lines only. Peter Morgan.

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Try a commercial news service - from 50 MB/day (once-only fee of < $5 )
up to 1500 MB/day for 6 months $99.95, 600 GB over 6 months $149.75
with many options in between... <http://tinyurl.com/3rjw4>