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ISP Eclipse Internet UK More than Doubles Broadband Usage Limits

By: MarkJ - 12 March, 2010 (8:14 AM) - Score: 2713 - Fixed Line Broadband, Special Offers

Both new and existing customers of Eclipse Internet should have a smile on their faces today after the ISP revealed a major refresh to its broadband packages, doubling usage limits for both Business and Home products. In some cases, such as for the £19.95 per month 'Home Select' package, the usage allowance has gone from 10GB (GigaBytes) per month to 50GB! Prices for a couple of packages have also fallen, but only by a little.

The ISP’s Home Office package usage limit has risen to 10GB, Business Bronze to 50GB and Business Silver to 100GB. The Business Gold usage remains "unlimited". The home service improvements see Home Select, designed for everyday use, social networking applications or downloading music, increase from 10GB to 50GB while the Home Pro package, designed for serious gamers and film addicts, jumps from 50GB to 100GB.

Clodagh Murphy, Director of Eclipse Internet, said:

"We’ve increased the limits of these packages in response to changes in the online behaviour of our customers, who predominantly run small businesses either from offices or from home. All our teams, from customer service to marketing to technical support are based on a single site making it much easier for us to respond quickly to the changing needs of our customers, be that higher usage, backup and hosting services or e-commerce."

The Home Select package, with its 50GB allowance, is now significantly more attractive because it is a BT based service and NOT an unbundled (LLU) one. This means that it is available to the whole country, although those outside of 21CN / WBC areas may have to put up with slower 'up to' 8Mbps speeds until their exchange is upgraded.

Home Lite - £11.95 per month
* up to 24Mbps Download Speed (1Mbps upload)
* 2GB Monthly Usage Allowance
* FREE webmail – get unlimited POP3 email, with AntiSpam and AntiVirus included as standard.
* 12 Month Contract

Home Select - £19.95 per month
* up to 24Mbps Download Speed (1Mbps upload)
* 50GB Monthly Usage Allowance
* FREE router
* FREE PC backup
* FREE webmail – get unlimited POP3 email, with AntiSpam and AntiVirus included as standard.
* 12 Month Contract

Home Pro - £29.95 per month
* up to 24Mbps Download Speed (1Mbps upload)
* 100GB Monthly Usage Allowance (Free overnight usage)
* FREE wireless router
* FREE PC backup
* FREE phone calls
* FREE webmail – get unlimited POP3 email, with AntiSpam and AntiVirus included as standard.
* 12 Month Contract

To help monitor usage limits see Eclipse's Traffic Controller feature on their website. The new packages are available now for both new and existing customers. The price on Home Lite has changed from £12.21 to £11.95 and the Home Pro package has moved from £30.60 to £29.95 per month.