ISPs release new prices in reaction to BT Wholesale price changes
Thursday 03 April 2003 16:34:00 by
Andrew Ferguson
It seems service providers are fast off the mark with the calculators. The first announcements of price cuts are coming in. One thing that many have perhaps forgotten, is that the price of the
2Mbps 20:1 service(£38) at a wholesale level is lower than the price of 512kbps 50:1 service(£40) when BT first launched ADSL in the UK.
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Service
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Current Price
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New Price
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AllComm, free install on 20:1 till 31st May
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Home 512
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£27.99 inc VAT
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Business 512 20:1
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£55 ex VAT
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Business 1000 20:1
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£75 ex VAT
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Business 2000 20:1
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£105 ex VAT
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Andrews & Arnold
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Home 500 Light
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£27.95 inc VAT
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Office 500
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£50 ex VAT
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Office 1000
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£75 ex VAT
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Office 2000
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£100 ex VAT
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Biscit, activation from £40 to £55
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Home 500
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£23.40 ex VAT
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SOHO 500
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£25 ex VAT
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Office 500
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£40 ex VAT
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Office 1000
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£70 ex VAT
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Office 2000
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£87.50 ex VAT
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Business Serve Plc
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512Kbps 50:1
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£19.99 ex VAT
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512Kbps 20:1
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£29.99 ex VAT
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1Mbps 20:1
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£43.99 ex VAT
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2Mbps 20:1
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£59.99 ex VAT
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DataNet, activation £59
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DataDSL Home 500
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£28
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£28 ex VAT
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DataDSL Biz 500
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£78
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£39 ex VAT
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DataDSL Biz 1000
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£118
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£69 ex VAT
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DataDSL Biz 2000
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£148
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£99 ex VAT
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Eclipse Broadband
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Connect 500 lite
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£22.75
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£20.38 ex VAT
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Connect 500
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£60
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£32 ex VAT
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Connect 1000
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£95
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£52 ex VAT
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Connect 2000
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£140
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£82 ex VAT
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Entanet, activation £55
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Home 500
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£22.50 ex VAT
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Office 500
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£29.99 ex VAT
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Office 1000
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£39.99 ex VAT
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Office 2000
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£148
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£49.99 ex VAT
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Freedom2Surf, free activation all home services
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Home 512K Pay As You Go
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£22.50 inc VAT
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Home 1Mbps 20:1
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£49.99 inc VAT
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Home 2Mbps 20:1
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£70 inc VAT
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512k Business Lite 50:1
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£22.50 ex VAT
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512k Business 20:1
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£35.00 ex VAT
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1024k Business 20:1
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£49.99 ex VAT
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2048k Business 20:1
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£140
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£70.00 ex VAT
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Frontier Internet
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Single User ADSL
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£37.58 ex VAT
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512kbps Network ADSL
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£87 ex VAT
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1Mbps Network ADSL
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£123.75 ex VAT
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2Mbps Network ADSL
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£174.17 ex VAT
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Griffin Internet
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CopperStream 500 Home
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£22.50
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£19.99 ex VAT
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CopperStream 500 Office
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£55
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£25.99 ex VAT
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CopperStream 1000 Office
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£80
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£42.99 ex VAT
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CopperStream 2000 Office
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£105
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£63.99 ex VAT
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Internet Central
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No Frills Light 500 50:1
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£22
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£19.99 ex VAT
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No Frills Office 500 20:1
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£55
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£33 ex VAT
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No Frills Office 1000 20:1
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£80
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£49 ex VAT
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No Frills Office 2000 20:1
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£115
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£69 ex VAT
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izR Solutions Ltd, activation £50
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Home 500 50:1
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£24.99 ex VAT
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Business 500
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£55 ex VAT
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Business 1000
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£75 ex VAT
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Business 2000
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£99 ex VAT
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Nildram, Zyxel 645R router for £75
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Office 500 20:1
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£32 ex VAT
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Office 1000 20:1
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£49 ex VAT
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Office 2000 20:1
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£67 ex VAT
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Plusnet
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Home Surf (50:1)
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£19.99
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£18.99 inc VAT
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Home (50:1)
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£22.99
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£21.99 inc VAT
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Home 500 (20:1)
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N/A
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£29.99 inc VAT
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Home 1000 (20:1)
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N/A
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£44.99 inc VAT
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Home 2000 (20:1)
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N/A
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£59.99 inc VAT
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Bizsurf (50:1)
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£26.99
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£24.99 ex VAT
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Netstart (50:1)
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£29.99
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£27.99 ex VAT
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Office500 (20:1)
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£55
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40 ex VAT
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Office1000 (20:1)
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£90
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£55 ex VAT
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Office2000 (20:1)
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£110
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£70 ex VAT
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Timewarp, activation £58.75 inc VAT
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Home 500 50:1
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£23.49 inc VAT
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SOHO 500
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£35.24 inc VAT
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Office 500 20:1
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£44.65 inc VAT
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Office 1000 20:1
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£68.15 inc VAT
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Office 2000 20:1
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£99.88 inc VAT
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V Two One (V21)
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Business 500
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£39.99 inc VAT
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Business 1000
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£69.99 inc VAT
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Business 2000
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£99.99 inc VAT
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Vispa
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Home 512kbps 50:1
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£27.99 inc VAT
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Home 1000 20:1
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£49.99 inc VAT
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Home 2000 20:1
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£79.99 inc VAT
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Office 500 20:1
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£60
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£35 ex VAT
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Office 1000 20:1
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£95
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£55 ex VAT
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Office 2000 20:1
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£140
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£70 ex VAT
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Zen Internet, free activation and one month contract
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Home 512kbps 50:1
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£29.99
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£27.99 inc VAT
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Office 500 20:1
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£60
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£38 ex VAT
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Office 1000 20:1
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£95
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£58 ex VAT
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Office 2000 20:1
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£140
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£83 ex VAT
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New pricing generally takes effect from 1st May 2003.
ISPs - email additions/corrections to andrew@thinkbroadband.com
As we find out new pricing from service providers we will attempt to add it to this list. We may reduce the number of products listed by service providers to key products e.g. Home 500 and Office
2000 products, in an attempt to the list as small as possible.
AOL has taken the stance that on the Home 500 service the price cut, once offset by the increase of cost of the BT Centrals means it is not worth cutting their services price. Remember AOL are
providing free activation. The small cut in price of the Home 500 service will highlight whether providers are purely chasing headline prices, or are looking towards the total ownership cost.
