Which ISP for a Charity - do they all charge at business rate?

Can anyone recommend an ISP which can give a service at normal
domestic rates, or special low rates. I was hoping to use Plusnet
£14.99 as the intended use will be for no more than 3 hours per day
three days a week. Unfortunately this isn't available as Charities are
deemed to be businesses.

KM

km wrote:
> Can anyone recommend an ISP which can give a service at normal
> domestic rates, or special low rates. I was hoping to use Plusnet
> £14.99 as the intended use will be for no more than 3 hours per day
> three days a week. Unfortunately this isn't available as Charities are
> deemed to be businesses.
>
> KM

A few providers suit your requirements:

* Zen (http://www.zenbroadband.com) will give you a "Home" service for
use whether your a charity or a business.

* AAISP (http://www.aaisp.net.uk) have a charity tarriff on their 512k
product (see the tarriffs page). There is a requirement that you must be
a registered charity though.

* Metronet (http://www.metronet.co.uk/adsl/paygo) appare to allow their
unique "Pay and Go" service to be used by business users too.

I've probably missed quite a few other providers out, so I'd advise
taking a look at ADSLGuide (http://www.adslguide.org.uk) for a
definative answer (they have forums that you can post on too, and most
of the ISP's have staff who read / post there).

hth.

On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 10:42:34 +0000, Martyn Dewar
<martyn._nospam-remove_dewar@_nospam-remove_zen.co.uk> wrote:

>km wrote:
>> Can anyone recommend an ISP which can give a service at normal
>> domestic rates, or special low rates. I was hoping to use Plusnet
>> £14.99 as the intended use will be for no more than 3 hours per day
>> three days a week. Unfortunately this isn't available as Charities are
>> deemed to be businesses.
>>
>> KM
>
>A few providers suit your requirements:
>
>* Zen (http://www.zenbroadband.com) will give you a "Home" service for
>use whether your a charity or a business.
>
>* AAISP (http://www.aaisp.net.uk) have a charity tarriff on their 512k
>product (see the tarriffs page). There is a requirement that you must be
>a registered charity though.
>
>* Metronet (http://www.metronet.co.uk/adsl/paygo) appare to allow their
>unique "Pay and Go" service to be used by business users too.
>
>I've probably missed quite a few other providers out, so I'd advise
>taking a look at ADSLGuide (http://www.adslguide.org.uk) for a
>definative answer (they have forums that you can post on too, and most
>of the ISP's have staff who read / post there).
>
>hth.


Thanks Martyn - I will follow these up.

KM

I don't know if http://www.charitydays.net/ will be of any use with you.
There are certain similarities with other portals ;0)

Incidentally, if your phone line is a home phone line - you can order any
home account on it anyway (just play dumb if queried). If the phone line is
registered as a business then you aren't supposed to be able to order home
ADSL.

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On 14 Mar 2005 19:01:54 GMT, cw <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Incidentally, if your phone line is a home phone line - you can order any
>home account on it anyway (just play dumb if queried). If the phone line is
>registered as a business then you aren't supposed to be able to order home
>ADSL.

That isn't true. As far as BT Wholesale (lets assume we are taking
about a line provisioned via BT Wholesale) are concerned there isn't
any such thing as "home ADSL". They provision 20:1 services which many
ISPs advertise as "business" services and 50:1 which is sometimes
advertised by ISPs as "home ADSL", but there is nothing to stop an ISP
ordering a 50:1 "home" service on a business phone line.
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cw wrote:
> I don't know if http://www.charitydays.net/ will be of any use with
> you. There are certain similarities with other portals ;0)

It is hosted by Plusnet.

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On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 22:00:22 +0000, Andrew Norman <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>On 14 Mar 2005 19:01:54 GMT, cw <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>Incidentally, if your phone line is a home phone line - you can order any
>>home account on it anyway (just play dumb if queried). If the phone line is
>>registered as a business then you aren't supposed to be able to order home
>>ADSL.

I've just realised that you may well have been referring specifically
to the distinction between the CharityDays business/non-business
products. In which case, please ignore my other post.
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Old Codger wrote:

> cw wrote:
>
>>I don't know if http://www.charitydays.net/ will be of any use with
>>you. There are certain similarities with other portals ;0)
>
>
> It is hosted by Plusnet.
>
More specifically, it's a plusnet provided vISP. (Note: It isn't owned
by Plusnet).

Interestingly, quite a few of Plusnet's controversial policies ("Fair
Usage" Policy etc) don't apply to vISP's that they don't own...