Pipex pipes-up with 150k DSL
By Tim Richardson
Published Tuesday 20th April 2004 16:09 GMT

UK ISP Pipex has cut the ribbon on a new entry-level ADSL service that
costs about the same as many dial-up services. The PIPEX Xtreme Solo
150k service costs £15.99 a month and has no bandwidth restrictions.
It also includes a free ADSL modem and free line set up.

Pipex chief exe Mike Read, said the product has been "engineered to
bridge the gap between narrowband and broadband".

The new product range is available from today. Further details can be
here.

Last October Tiscali UK announced the launch of its 150k service for
£15.99 which, it said at the time, would "force competition into the
broadband market". Two months later PlusNet followed suit with a
similarly-priced 150k service.

At the other end of the scale, new outfit High Speed Communications
(HSC) has launched a "Bandwidth-On-Demand" service for businesses in
central London. The privately-financed company reckons that this will
be just the job for businesses who want to pay for their Net access
when it's used, rather than on an all-you-can-eat basis.

"The savings realised by ‘throttling back' even just at evenings and
weekends could shave thousands of pounds off corporate IT budgets,"
the company said. ®
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