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It’s only 3 weeks late, but Imagine have finally released their much anticipated WiMax Broadband pricing. And after all the hype, it wasn’t something worth waiting for.
Although most press releases this morning mention that Imagine’s WiMax is 50% cheaper than Eircoms equivalent, anyone who has been on the lookout for Broadband recently, knows that Eircom is one of the more expensive offerings. When you compare Imagine’s WiMax with one of their competitors such as UPC / NTL, the mid range offer from Imagine is actually €8 more expensive. The only benefit of choosing Imagine’s WiMax package is the fact that it has an unlimited download cap. Imagine’s fastest offering, the 7MB option is €3 cheaper than UPC’s 10MB offering. On the positive side, Imagine’s Mobile Broadband offering is quite impressive. For a 7MB mobile broadband connection, it costs only €15 a month.
After all the hype generated from the Imagine publicity team, I feel very let down. At the moment, with the current pricing structure, there is absolutely no reason for me to change my current provider at home. I’m sure a lot of people will feel the same.
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#1 by ben101 at February 12th, 2010
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One thing to keep in mind is that you rarely get the speeds you pay for.For example,you could pay for 10 mb connection but get radically different speeds from the different providers.While UPC aren’t the cheapest on paper ,they do pretty well on speed tests in my experience,whereas my old 3 mb bt connection rarely got above 1.5 mb.Providers should give the max speed AND an average speed that you could normally expect.
#2 by Tom Doyle at February 15th, 2010
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Well they cover that with their “contention ratio”. Which most people don’t understand what that means.
At home I use vodafone, 3MB line and I always get it at full capacity, possibly because no-one else in my area is with the same provider.
Irish broadband in the office and most of the time we also get the full 4mb.
So it’s hard for them to give an average – but they should certainly give you an indication of how many others are using the line before you sign the contract!
#3 by Francois at December 28th, 2010
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No such thing as “Unlimited” or “Uncapped”
It is a selling point, but once youre hooked youre hooked.
Once you reach 30 GB download and over your speed is capped to under 1/2 a MB.
This is their fair policy usage idea.
It apparently does get reset when you go into the next new month.