Posted: 25th Apr, 2003 By: MarkJ
FireFly has today become the latest provider to introduce a form of
Pay As You Go (PAYG) style pre-pay Internet access where you pay for a bulk period of time and can use it when you like:
FireFly saves you 90% of your 0845 charges - NO monthly subscription!
FireFly 'Freedom' is designed for two types of people, Lite users who don't want to pay upto 4p/min on 0845 calls and users of ANY ISP with a monthly allowance that you sometimes go over, simply use this as a 'top-up'.
We know the scene, you've used up your monthly allocation of hours, now what? It's simple. You buy blocks of time which can be used on any of our freecall numbers any time of any day. Time blocks can be purchase in easy blocks of 3,000 and 6,000 minutes (50 and 100 hours) for £15 and £25.
As you only pay for the time you are online, this puts YOU in control.
Roll-over unused minutes from month-month.
NO monthly subscription
56K and 64K/128K ISDN supported
Until 30/04/2003, you can purchase you first block of 100 hours for £19.99 making your time online a simple 0.3p per minute for your first 100 hours. That's 6,000 minutes !
Go on, you know it makes sense, see http://www.fireflyuk.net for more details.The unique aspect of this service appears to be the roll-over feature; some other providers have a tendency to include a catch-22 for when the minutes MUST be used up by.