Posted: 02nd Dec, 2011 By: MarkJ
Communications provider
Entanet, which also supplies several UK ISPs with internet access services, has begun promoting a new affordable 'up to' 24Mbps ( ADSL2+ ) broadband package to its partners that effectively offers "
FREE bandwidth" to end-users from 7pm till 7am Monday to Friday and across the entire weekend.
The
Dusk till Dawn service is apparently a special offer for Entanet's partners and, when it launches to end-users through the operators reseller ISPs, will only be
available to new connections (no migrations). An RRP of
£9.99 inc. VAT has been attached to the service, which comes with a 12 month contract and a small
1GB allowance from 7am till 7pm Monday to Friday.
Entanet's Head of Marketing, Darren Farnden, said:
"We wanted to give resellers a product that better suits customers who use little bandwidth during the day but expect to use more from early evening onwards, as well as across their weekends. We also wanted to provide a product at a very competitive price that retains the quality that we’re known for. We believe too that Dusk till Dawn will help resellers build good long-term business, because of its 12 month contract."
It's worth pointing out that the "
FREE bandwidth" period has no official
Fair Usage Policy (FUP) attached to it, although Entanet states that its "
usual traffic management policy" and a standard
Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) do apply. In our opinion any traffic management restrictions should ideally be a part of the FUP, where consumers traditionally look to find it.
The new product will apparently be available to order from Monday 5th December 2011, although at this stage we don't know which of Entanet's ISP clients will be offering it and will update once we know more.