Posted: 25th Feb, 2003 By: MarkJ
Our Irish readers will no doubt be happy to learn that ComReg has finally set the pricing for wholesale unmetered FRIACO (Flat-Rate Internet Access Call Origination) services:
Flat-rate Internet access will give Web users at home and in small businesses the ability to log on to the Internet over dial-up for unlimited periods of time at a fixed monthly price. Entrant telecoms, such as Esat BT and Nevada Tele.com, will buy wholesale access from Eircom and re-sell it to consumers.
In its update, ComReg said that after reviewing Eircom's submission, the rate for un-metered wholesale Net access shall be set at EUR14,728 per 2Mb/s per annum, plus certain small administration fees. This price translates as roughly EUR12.77 per customer, per month on a wholesale basis -- one of the lowest flat-rate prices in Europe.So it looks as if Ireland is about to embark upon the same journey that our own country has been on for several years now, lets hope that the ISPs don't also end up making the same mistakes. History has shown that they probably will, more @
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