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Esat BT offers broadband package for €50 a month

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  • 19-09-2003 10:17am
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    Qadhafi
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    Esat BT offers broadband package for €50 a month

    TELCO Esat BT has dropped the rate of its broadband services to €50 a month in a new offer for consumers.

    The offer, which is available immediately, includes free installation, free use of a modem and free rental for the first month.

    It also involves an 8 gigabyte data allowance per month.

    Commenting on the latest offer, Bill Murphy, chief executive of Esat BT said: "In order to bring Ireland online, Esat BT has fought hard for a reduction in wholesale connection fees in a bid to drive broadband uptake in this country and push for a digital Ireland."

    Esat BT's consumer broadband offering is called IOL Broadband, and is available for a monthly rental fee of €49.49.

    According to the company, this gives consumers a 9pc saving over Eircom's broadband offering at €54.45. The monthly data allowance for IOL Broadband has increased to 8 gigabytes, which would allow consumers to download approximately 2,600 MP3 songs per month or watch 1,600 movie trailers per month.

    Ailish O'Hora


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    dahamsta
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,659 ✭✭✭✭dahamsta


    C'mon UTV, you can go one better than that!

    adam


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    #3
    Tazzle
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭Tazzle


    8 gb is for upload and download though :(


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    MarcusGarvey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 825 ✭✭✭MarcusGarvey


    I cannot believe they used the amount of mp3s as the measure of the cap.

    Whats Netsource going to counter with ?


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    #5
    jimmeh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 254 ✭✭jimmeh


    Throttling the top 20% of users.


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    #6
    Qadhafi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 240 ✭✭Qadhafi


    well its a bit better than previously but this cap thing should be binned. Its bad enough having to shell out €50 every month just for a 512k connection which is mediocre but on hop on that being restricted with a 8GB in total traffic... it kind of runs in the face of the whole idea of broadband.


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