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Thursday, Jun 28th, 2012 (10:05 am) - Score 446

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Business internet provider FidoNet has this week moved to compliment its recent offer of 6 months free superfast broadband service by doubling the bandwidth allowances across all of their 21CN based broadband products and reducing activation charges by 20% on FTTC.

In addition the ISP has also standardised 10Mbps upload speeds (instead of 2Mbps) accross all of their basic FTTC (superfast broadband) packages. As a result FidoNet’s Basic 40 (up to 39Mbps) FTTC product, when taken as just one example, has seen its usage allowance boosted from 50GB to 100GB per month.

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