on 30/1/03 11:27 pm, Andrew Crystall at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 30 Jan 2003 at 22:24, William T Goodall wrote: >>> And let me restate - all the "home" deals for dial-up access in the >>> UK kick you off every 2 hours, and they kick you off the *ISP >>> entirely* if in any 24 hour rolling period you're connected for more >>> than 12 hours. The ONLY exception is AOL. >> >> Demon doesn't either. See >> http://www.demon.net/products/access/standard.shtml > > "***Demon uses 0845 numbers on the Standard Dial Up account. > 0845 numbers are described by Oftel as "local call rate". BT charges > these at local call rates "
This would be new since I went onto broadband a few months ago. BT wholesale must be enforcing the same limits on all the ISPs who use its surftime packages as it applies to its own branded ones. [1] The question is, do you want to rely on a loss-making subsidised service from a company that lost $100,000,000,000 (A hundred billion dollars) or do you want something that will still be there next week ? :) [2] [1] And you can still get surftime tariffs via Demon. [2] I thought the 'give it away free and make money somehow' internet bubble burst a long time ago. Mind you AOL-Time Warner has a *lot* less than nothing to lose :) -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ Misuse of IMPs leads to strange, difficult-to-diagnose bugs. - Anguish et al. "Cocoa Programming" _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
