So whatever happened to BT's BB for €10pm?

Blaster99

As reported here: http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single5231. It was seemingly supposed to be announced at the end of this week and unless I'm mistaken, now is the end of the week...

eircomtribunal

In more news of telecoms, a new promotion from BT Ireland will offer business broadband to small and medium sized enterprises for EUR10 per month. The offer is valid for the first 12-months of service and is part of a complete communications package which includes calls, line rental and 2MB broadband bundled together on a single bill. For companies that cannot receive broadband because of line quality or exchange availability, BT Ireland will provide them with BT Anytime, flat rate, ISDN/PSTN dial-up access, for 12 months free of charge.

That's how ENN put it.

With this strategy BT offers the kind of "demand stimulation" that makes sense. I am glad to see Maloney no longer simply reselling the incumbent's offers, but doing aggressive marketing which points into the unbundled future expansion.
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damien

There is a minimum spend of €190 for calls and line rental, which realistically is at the lower level for a lot of SMEs. I'm glad they offered flatrate dialup/isdn for those that cannot get broadband.

Blaster99

I presume that's €190 worth of calls/rental per month... So they're basically trying to get SME's voice business, where margins are probably very healthy. I suppose that's fair enough.

lucernarian

It looks like BT are the first company in Ireland to offer some form of compensation should a phone line not qualify for broadband, albeit a promotion aimed at SMEs. But it's a good step nontheless.

thecivvie

damien.m wrote:

There is a minimum spend of €190 for calls and line rental, which realistically is at the lower level for a lot of SMEs. I'm glad they offered flatrate dialup/isdn for those that cannot get broadband.

I wish they would offer unlimited dialup for those who cannot get BB and want it