Gio does ADSL for £17.99 a month

Broadband promos a go-go

By Tim Richardson • Get more from this author

Posted in Telecoms, 9th October 2002 09:20 GMT

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Oldham-based ISP Gio Internet has joined the ever-growing number of broadband outfits to offer promos for its broadband service.

It's cut the cost of its ADSL broadband package from £24.95 a month to £17.99 a month.

The offer runs until the end of 2002 and anyone taking up the offer during this time will be charged at the lower rate even when the promo expires.

Gio Internet reckons this offer makes it the cheapest UK provider of ADSL broadband for business and home users. In the last day or so some 100 people have signed up for the service no doubt delighted that they might just have bagged themselves a bargain.

Elsewhere, Bucks-based Nildram has cut the cost of its Home 500 service by £6 a month to £29.99. Nildram, which was recently ranked the UK's speediest ADSL ISP, is also offering a tariff that includes free activation - a saving of £50.

Home500 Free Start - which includes a static IP address, a POP3 mailbox, a sub-domain and 100MB of personal webspace - costs £35.99 a month and is subject to a minimum 12 month contract.

What else. Oh yes. Prices for Eclipse's SDSL trial, details of which were announced on Monday.

SDSL Connect 250
256Kbps service with 10:1 contention
£475 set up
£99 per month

SDSL Connect 500
512Kbps service with 10:1 contention
£475 set up
£150 per month

SDSL Connect 1000
1Mbps service with 10:1 contention
£475 set up
£222 per month

SDSL Connect 2000
2 Mbs service with 10:1 contention
£475 set up
£340 per month

A typical SDSL router cost will set you back £340 and all prices are subject to VAT. ®

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