From: Satelle, StevenX (stevenx.satelle at domain intel.com)
Date: Mon 08 Oct 2001 - 22:13:57 IST
Stop teasing me!
-----Original Message-----
From: john.allen at domain online.ie [mailto:john.allen at domain online.ie]
Sent: 08 October 2001 19:18
To: ilug at domain linux.ie
Subject: Re: [ILUG] Re: ADSL in France
Niall O Broin wrote:
> Fresh from that call to Eircom, I asked a colleague in France what ADSL
> costs him (and I sent that mail to the list - sorry :-( ) and here's his
> reply:
>
>
>
>>Let's be nasty. I just received the France Telecom invoice this
>>Morning, so I give here *real* prices (VAT included):
>>- Installation (non-recurrent) : 46.11 EUR
>>- Monthly fee (line + Internet + Ethernet modem): 49.54 EUR
>>
>>Let's be nastier: its 512k down, 128k up, and ... there is no cap.
>>
>
> For thos who don't remember, here are the figures for Eircom's cheapest
> offering - same rates, but a 3GB monthly cap.
>
>
>>Connection fee EUR 150 inc. VAT
>>Monthly fee is EUR 118.80 inc. VAT
>>ADSL USB modem EUR 174 inc. VAT
>>ADSL Ethernet modem EUR 240 inc. VAT
>>
An associate in the US (runs Gentoo Linux) pays just over $100
a month for Business Class (A)DSL 640k/384k with no cap, and
domain regitratation with unlimited hostnames, and 16 static
ip addresses.
What the f*ck are we doing living in this godforsaken country.
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