RE: Get broadband for a tenner a month

["Nick Shore" <nick.shore@xxxxxxx>]

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Thought this might be interesting to those lucky few within BT ADSL range:

See our website for ADSL info and a comparison of the different providers.

http://www.multithread.co.uk/ADSL/

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All comments/feedback welcome

Nick.

PS. one of these days I'm going to floodwire the house, and buy lots of
cool
HA gear
(when SWMBO agrees :-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Gordon [mailto:paul_gordon@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 03 November 2000 14:24
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Get broadband for a tenner a month
>
>
> Just saw this from the latest T3 newsletter:
>
> AT LAST! - Some Competition for British Rip-off^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Telecom
>
> Regards.
>
> Paul G.
>
> <SNIP>
>
> Get broadband for a tenner a month
>
> BT had better watch out, a Luxembourg owned wireless data company is
> planning to introduce a broadband service in the UK for £9.99 a
> month, about
> a quarter of BT's prospective price. Tele2 is hoping to tempt people
who
> don't want to wait for BT's ADSL service to take theirs instead.
> The company
> has a license from the Radiocommunications Agency to operate
> masts carrying
> data to and from users' buildings.
>
> Tele2 already has 600 business users around its UK HQ in Reading,
Leeds,
> Nottingham and Leicester. It now plans to launch the service to
> consumers,
> spreading its network to 40 centres nationwide by the end of
> 2001. Monthly
> payments of £9.99 will buy you a 150 kilobit-per-second connection -
2.5
> times faster than a dial-up modem. BT's 500 kbps ADSL is £39.99.
>
> There is a drawback though, users will have to live within line
> of sight of
> one of Tele2's base stations, and will have to spend £49.99 for a
> laptop-sized receiver to be stuck on their roof. But this is
> still cheaper
> than the £150 BT charges for its Openworld ADSL product.
>
> Tele2 reportedly won't make a profit on the service, but by pipping BT
to
> the post, it's hoping to attract customers and will then eventually
> introduce faster and more expensive connections
>
>
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