DSL in Germany - €3.99 per month

damien

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/29/t-online_cutprice_dsl/

Internet users in Germany can now have a DSL line for as little as €3.99 per month. Germany's biggest ISP, T-Online, has launched its no-frills DSL brand Congster in a fight back against low-cost rivals, Reuters reports.

But there is a catch: Congster is a stripped-down Internet access service, without an email address or SMTP access. Tech-savvy subscribers should run their own mail server, or stick to webmail services such as Hotmail. Additional services such as premium content and anti-virus software are also not available.

More importantly, there is a monthly usage limit: for €3.99 per month you can get 2000 MB, or about 700 Mp3s. Heavy downloaders can buy 8000 MB for € 12.99 per month. If you exceed the limit you pay 1.39c per megabyte.

T-Online's biggest competitor is Freenet, which currently charges €5.90 for 2000 MB.

Surely that means dialup is all but dead over there now ?

byte

OMG that's cheap!

Capt'n Midnight

damien.m wrote:

Surely that means dialup is all but dead over there now ?

They have had ISDN over there at practically no extra cost for so long that I'd doubt that any urban dwellers would recognise a normal modem anymore.

€4 for 2GB and since users have to use webmail - less viruses !

1.39c/MB - have to be careful though..

seamus

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

1.39c/MB - have to be careful though..

That's no so bad though. You wouldn't be heavily in debt if you mistakenly went over by a few hundred megs. It about €14/GB. Not breaking the bank.

eircomtribunal

It is not thaaat cheap in Germany. You can get €0 packages (rather than the mentioned € 3.99 one) of volume capped 1,2 and 3 Mb services, but for all your dsl packages you have first to buy a special dsl line subscription, which will add another € 16 to your € 16 normal line rental cost (all inc VAT).
And the 1 Mb+ bb is not available on all lines yet, it is currently available on 89.8% of lines. The unlucky ones have to be content with a provisional special 380 kb/s broadband solution.

But yes, those offers leave no more room for dial-up flatrates.

P.

Capt'n Midnight

eircomtribunal wrote:

but for all your dsl packages you have first to buy a special dsl line subscription, which will add another € 16 to your € 16 normal line rental cost (all inc VAT).

How much is the line rental over there ?
IIRC you can also get naked DSL so their entry level BB is less than Eircom line rental.
And Deutsch Telecom has more or less a monoploy in many areas.

eircomtribunal

Don't think you can get naked dsl in Germany. On the incumbents pagehttp://www.t-com.de/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/WFS/PK/de_DE/-/EUR/PK_DisplayProductInformation-Keyword;sid=eys0Cw1QEF-gWkyFBYY-kyxYt383L99uFn9yzQAaWUcEUQ==?ProductRef=0302001000019%40PK&KeywordPath=Katalog%2fInternet%2fT-DSL%2fT-DSL_Anschluss
they'll mention the price for 1,2 and 3 Mb dls connections and say in the footnote (1) that this is additional to having a normal connection, of which there are a variety (analogue, ISDN and with various call rates and packages), starting from 16.99 I think.

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Brenner

Holy Gamoly! That fer - like - nuthin!!

lucernarian

originally posted by eircomtribunal
The unlucky ones have to be content with a provisional special 380 kb/s broadband solution.

I had to laugh when I read that. You call that unlucky? I feel sorry for the poor folks who live up the road from me who connect to the net at an average speed of 24kbps.

ZX-5000

This offer from Arcor (the second lagest telecommunication company in germany) is very chaeper as t-com. http://www.arcor.de/privat/dsl/index.jsp
EUR 29,90 for ISDN and DSL 1000 with tranfervolumen 1000 MB. For EUR 9,95 dsl flatrate (time and traffic unlimited)

http://www.arcor.de/privat/dsl/extras/index.jsp
Extras: DSL 2000 EUR 5,00, DSL 3000 EUR 10,00
For EUR 19,95 phone calls unlimited to german landline (option)

Another company alice dsl offers dsl 1600 flaterate for EUR 37,90 and dsl 5000 for EUR 49,90. No time or traffic limit
inclusive analogue phone line, ISDN costs only EUR 2,00 more.
For EUR 19,95 phone calls unlimited to german landline too (option)
http://www.alice-dsl.de/opencms/export/de/download/alice_dsl_de/preislisten/preise_pk_alice5000_alice1500_alicemovie.pdf

And an offer from versatel http://www.versatel.de/
dsl 2000 (no limit flatrate) and isdn for EUR 39,95.
For EUR 19,95 phone calls unlimited to german landline too (option)

That`s are fine prices