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Supanet, too good to be true?

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NoS1 - to be honest, the only advice I would give is to avoid this like the plague. They are reselling broadband access at (or very close to) the costs they are charged by BT just for the connection - and that's before usage is taken into account, which can cost a fair bit.

This industry is littered with companies that have tried to offer far too good a deal at far too low a price, and they all disappear sooner or later, often with lots of recriminations and customers being the ones to suffer the most.

:nod:

BT currently charge ISPs £8.97 (inc vat) per month for just the ADSL line card rental. At the (1000 ish?) largest exchanges they do give a £1.46 rebate.

So providing just the connection, costs the ISP between £7.51 and £8.97 per month.

So for a £9.99 per month ADSL service there's between £1.02 and £2.48 to cover the costs of bandwidth (mainly BT central costs), wages, offices, advertising and everything else.

£1.02 won't even buy much bandwidth - The BT central rental costs means the cost of transfering a gigabyte of data must be in excess of 60p.

Of couse they might be reselling a LLU service where available, Tiscalli perhaps?
 
Not that it matters, but I left out the new 63p per user, central bandwidth charge :o

Connection rental is £7.63 +vat per month
CBC end user bandwidth charge is £0.63 +vat per month

Rental discount at 1016 busiest exhanges -£1.24 +vat

That's a rental cost of either £8.25 or £9.70 inc vat

And for a BT central:-

622Mbps LT2P annual rental £1,162,600 +vat

So that could carry approx 622 /8 /1024 x 60 x 60 x 24 x 365 = 2,394,457 Gigabytes per year at a cost of £1,366,055 inc vat

That comes to 57p inc vat per gig of bandwidth as an absolute minimum.

The 57p per gigabyte figure still doesn't include bandwidth costs for the link to the internet, as I haven't a clue how much they are and bare in mind the ISP will actually need enough capacity to provide reasonable speeds at peak times, so the real cost of bandwidth is more than that.
 
so supanet offer £10 bb talk talk offer free bb just for using a telephone package as do orange with mobile phones so how do they justify the cost... ok orange get £30 monthly for mobile contract but what do talk talk make out of it. supanet probably get money per subscriber from advertisers oh thier home page but the unlimited portion is unusual talk talk dont offer this they are capped and orange charge £5 per month (i think) for unlimited use but i think it still has a fup
 
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