From: Niall Sheridan (nsheridan at domain ibuk.bankgesellschaft.de)
Date: Mon 28 Feb 2000 - 12:26:59 GMT
At the start of january, a 2meg line would have set you back anything from
75,000 to 100,000. Right now its about 40,000. Do some maths, and by
november youre looking at damn cheap lines. By that stage, this Genesis
crowd might just be able to pull it off...
Regards,
Niall
-----Original Message-----
From: ray at domain skynet.ie [mailto:ray at domain skynet.ie]
Sent: 28 February 2000 11:59 AM
To: Donncha O Caoimh
Cc: ilug at domain linux.ie
Subject: Re: [ILUG] [OT] Genesis Europe, dirt cheap Internet access..
On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Donncha O Caoimh wrote:
I didn't see the add but Something strikes me as strange...
A 2 Mbit line for a corporate is going to cost somewhere in the order of
45-50 k pa & doesn't use a "standard" phone line, I've no idea how much a
45Mbit line is going to cost even if it's not permanent, something there
doesn't add up. Maybe I've missed something but please tell me if I have
ta
Ray ...
|Anyone see the advert in the Sunday Tribune yesterday? this ISP promises
|45Mbits to your house over standard phone lines. It's a flat rate
|service, with no concept of peak/off-peak usage.
|Their Internet service won't start until November, but they also offer
|low cost international calls, ~12p/min to the USA..
|Their number was 1800 436 37 47 but I don't know if it's active now. The
|ad said it was active for the weekend.
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