UK: Free Broadband for All!
The BBC news is reporting that the Carphone Warehouse is planinng to offer free broadband connections to deepen its foothold into the broadband market - Currently it has only about 75,000 punters compared to the millions served by the handful of other main players like NTL, Wannadoo etc...
Quote:
The company looks poised to provide free access for customers who sign up to its Talk Talk landline service.
[Notes they have affilliateships :p ]
- Y! MyWeb
Giving away free broadband
Giving away free broadband is a no brainer. They just need to package so little bandwidth and bill people extra for that instead. Dodo do really cheap broadband here (Aus), but the bandwidth included is a total joke.
bandwidth cap is 40GB per calendar month
subject to 'fair use' policy. That should satisfy most 'casual' users who aren't throwing audio/video around, or playing packet-heavy games 24/7.