Vodafone to launch landline broadband bundle

Urban Weigl

Arun has said Vodafone will launch landline broadband bundles in all its important markets, though no word if that includes Ireland.

As far as the UK:

Vodafone joins in with the broadband game
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Published Monday 11th September 2006 11:35 GMT
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Vodafone has thrown its hat into the fixed-line broadband market courtesy of a deal with BT Wholesale. The company expects to have the service up and running by the end of the year, in addition to its mobile offering.
However, customers will have to wait to see what kind of services will be available. For now, the company is playing its cards close to its chest.

A Vodafone spokeswoman told us: "The other details, which I do know, will be announced later on this year. This is just an announcement of the agreement."
The deal looks to be a straightforward rebranding of the BT service.
Vodafone's chief executive said in the press release: "Choosing BT as our partner enables us to provide high quality fixed-line broadband services to customers quickly and cost-efficiently right across the UK, and this perfectly complements our national mobile coverage and mobile broadband service." ®

Urban Weigl

I just see it's already live in Germany. €50 a month there gets you a triple flat-rate package: unlimited free calls to landlines, unlimited free calls to Vodafone, and unlimited ADSL. That price includes both a mobile as well as a landline. An extra phone can be had for an additional €1, and an extra €5 beefs up the speed to 6mbps (again with unlimited data transfer).

cgarvey

Presumably there's nothing stopping them doing that here, only it'll cost more because of our higher bitstream prices? Of course the "unlimited" thing would probably be an issue here too.

I'm sure eircom/Meteor wanted to get there before Vodafone, but all has been quiet on that front