Posted: 05th Nov, 2005 By: MarkJ
ADSLGuide has confirmed the wholesale pricing (offered to ISP's) for the next phase of BT's broadband ADSL Max (8Mbps) trial, which will start on 30th November 2005:
Pricing for the service providers has been confirmed, with the same pricing as the existing Home/Office products i.e. Datastream Home Max and Office Max @ £7.05 per month and IPstream Home Max @ £8.40 and IPstream Office Max @ £12.40. Of course the service providers for Datastream have the costs of the VP rental from each exchange to add, and for IPstream there is the cost of the users share of the BT Central rental. The identical pricing to the existing ADSL services brings the prospect of the metered products retaining the same pricing but increasing in speed.
During the trial, regrades from existing BT Wholesale ADSL products onto the Max range will be free at the wholesale level, but check with your service provider as some may charge a regrade fee or alter monthly payments as a result of the regrade. For those who want to regrade between Home Max and Office Max products BT Wholesale will charge the ISP the standard £11+VAT regrade fee.