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Better pricing on FTTC options

Premium started off as an ADSL Max option, where it costs £4/month (exc. VAT) wholesale and £10/month (inc. VAT) from A&A.

When the network links to BT reached their committed limit and it took time for BT to react, the concept of LNS premium was introduced to give priority to those lines when there wasn't enough bandwidth.

On FTTC the 10mbit/s upload option is £1/month (exc. VAT) from BT [Wholesale]. There are other FTTC options available such as "Elevated Best Effort" too that may or may not be part of A&A premium (from the description it appears that it might be).

These need to be split up into separate pricing options otherwise it's necessary to pay £10/month more just to get 10mbit/s upload when the other features are not required and the actual cost is only 10% of that.

Simon Arlott , 22.10.2010, 16:45
Idea status: rejected

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aaisp, 13.12.2010, 11:27
As well as higher upload speed and priority in BTs network the Premium option also gives priority in our network too. However, at the moment at least, we're not looking to separate the options out...
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Simon Arlott, 21.01.2012, 10:04
And the price is now going up to £12/month... I'm surprised you're still trying to make a single "Premium" apply to multiple vastly different line types at once (20CN ADSL and 21CN FTTC) when 21CN ADSL2+ Annex M is separate.
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Simon Arlott, 26.01.2012, 19:49
Just checked the BT [Wholesale] price list. The 01/01/2012 price list still states £1/month (exc. VAT).
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Stephenson, 14.02.2012, 07:33
It's a shame that AAISP haven't split-out a stand-alone 10 Mb/s option. I'm looking at standing-up FTTC on a new line and this policy has struck AAISP from my list of viable ISP options.

I wouldn't mind paying £1.20 per month. £12 is excessive.
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Roger, 05.04.2012, 15:39
The standard FTTC product is now 40/10 Mb/s. The premium option now gets you up to 80/20. See http://status.aaisp.net.uk/apost.cgi?incident=1454 for a horribly Javascripty page.
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Simon Arlott, 21.04.2012, 09:49
This is still not fixed.

The 20Mbit/s option is still overpriced and forces you to pay for elevated best effort.
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