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Story: Broadband to be metered in 8Mbps future

Posted by: Peter Vaughan (Saturday 19 February 2005, 1:04 AM)

Mr Wearden,

Thank you for the recent article on PlusNet and it's move into 8Mbs broadband. Having read the article, as a member of the PlusNet Usergroup, I would like to bring to your attention a number of factual errors I have noticed which you may like to correct.

First, PlusNet intend to charge customers per-gigabyte not per-megabyte as you indicate at the start.

Second, for the £21.99 fee you will get 30GB of peak-time data and 200GB (not 230GB) during the night. These figures are also based on having a 2Mbs ADSL line and the off-peak (night time) figure will be different for other speeds.

The announcement issued by PlusNet was a bit unclear and has caused a number of people, like yourself, to mis-interpret the figures PlusNet supplied.

e.g. £21.99 30GB 230GB reads as price, peak data allowance and total data allowance (including peak). Thus the off-peak (night time) figure is 200GB.

Regards,

Peter Vaughan
PlusNet Usergroup Member
http://usergroup.plus.net