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Story: Pay-as-you-go broadband service targets light users

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Your initial report in 2004 put me onto Lixxus but at the time I did not think PAYGo was terribly viable and difficicult to cost as I had no method of measuring download/upload. As they have changed their deals somewhat I am re-investigating, particularly as I now have software to measure the thro'put. Unfortunately Lixxus have seemingly hidden the cost structure that you gave in your article which means that I cannot now cost it unless they eventually answer my question.
I believe that in most cases PAYGo Broadband offers may well be a 'sprat to catch a mackeral' as I believe the Bulldog 8Mb/s PAYGo offer is aimed at such a small market (due to Bandwidth being limited by distance from the BT exchange or does that not now come into it.) I now see that 24Mb/s is being offered - who the hell can get this?)
Bulldog 3p/min charging is a sensible approach but they don't offer it in any of the three rural areas that I'm looking at - which stuffs that.
I have also looked at ONSPEED compression software and have asked Onspeed if there file compression system will work on a Broadband PAYGo system as by compressing the data downloaded would further decrease the thro'put - or is this what all the 8/24Mb/s is all about?

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