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BT UK introduce caps

RobertFoster · 2004-07-05 13:14:01

A friend in England got word that BT are to introduce caps.... He's not rightly pleased and plans on changing ISP :D And here was me thinking he was a lucky git with a 1mb line and no cap...

05-07-2004 2:14pm

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RobertFoster

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A friend in England got word that BT are to introduce caps....

Usage allowances give you the ability to transfer up to 15Gb of data per month with the BT Yahoo! Broadband 512Kbps service or 30Gb of data per month with the BT Yahoo! Broadband 1Mb service.

Everything that a customer does over their broadband service will count towards the limit, surfing, e-mails, downloading and uploading music, gaming, listening to internet radio etc. We will not "look" at what this data is, we only sees this as a quantity of data being transferred over the broadband service.

We will confirm prices for additional usage nearer this time but indicative prices for additional usage allowance top ups are currently £2 per additional GB, although we plan to develop a range of options that could make this even less.

BT will not start charging for usage above the allowances until early 2005

He's not rightly pleased and plans on changing ISP

And here was me thinking he was a lucky git with a 1mb line and no cap...

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#2 05-07-2004 2:33pm

spongebob

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The Download Cap is 15Gb not 4Gb

There is no upload Cap

The price per Gb over the cap is UKP2 (about €3) while the price in Ireland is €36

Tell him not to be a whinging pom

M

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#3 05-07-2004 2:34pm

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Originally posted by Muck

There is no upload Cap

Everything that a customer does over their broadband service will count towards the limit, surfing, e-mails, downloading and uploading music, gaming, listening to internet radio etc. We will not "look" at what this data is, we only sees this as a quantity of data being transferred over the broadband service.

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#4 05-07-2004 2:36pm

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Ahh OK JTG

The 1Gb up and 4Gb down product in Ireland gives you an aggregate limit of 5Gb a month for €40 or so .

In the UK you will get an aggregate 15Gb for the same whack.... or less.

M

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#5 05-07-2004 3:03pm

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Hardly earth-shattering news. It is BT Openworld/Yahoo/Whatever they're calling themselves this month after all - the n00b's choice.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=170470

Still though, they do let you do a topup for a hell of a lot less than Eircon's draconian charges...

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#6 05-07-2004 3:05pm

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i'd just move over to someone like Bulldog tbh (£20 a month!!!)

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