Here’s a brief overview of the different ADSL offers in Luxembourg:
First, every company propose the following bandwidth:
– Small: 1 Mbit/s download, 128 kbit/s upload.
– Middle: 2 Mbit/s download, 192 kbit/s upload.
– Large: 3 Mbit/s download, 192 kbit/s upload.
Now, let’s compare the prices in €:
| Operator | Small | Middle | Large | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| P&T | 29 (1 GB) | 47 (15 GB) | 79 (25 GB) | Limited in traffic, then 0.003 €/MB |
| Cegecom | 38 (15 GB) | 42 (25 GB) | 71 (40 GB) | Traffic based, extra traffic charged € 0.003/MB Fixed IP address for € 29/month plus € 109 for setup. |
| Visual Online | 42 | 71 | 100 | Flat rate, Fixed IP address for € 29/month plus € 109 for setup. |
| Netline | 42 | 71 | 99 | Flat rate, Fixed IP address for € 29/month plus € 109 for setup. |
| Alternet | 30 | 60 | 98 | Flat rate, Package with fixed IP address and 1 domain hosting for € 150. |
| Luxembourg Online | 29 | 45 | 70 | Flat rate. Extra € 6 if you do not want to use them for telephony. |
| Tele 2 | 24 | 40 | 65 | Flat rate. |
| DSL4all | 24 | 40 | 66 | Flat rate. |
Requirements are an analog phone line: € 19 (€ 17 for Cegecom) or ISDN (~€ 22) for every provider. Some of them require also to sign a telephone calls contract that routes all your phone calls via them. Also, some prices might not include the ADSL line while some others do. Prices were checked on their Website on January 2nd, 2006. I forgot to check what prices include VAT and not…
The most amazing is the cost of a fixed IP address. My only question is where is competition in there?
PS: Happy New Year 🙂
I’m glad you spent sometime to tracking down prices. The whole calculation is further complicated by the so called integral offers, if you have a mobile phone from a particular provider or you have cable TV the relative cost calculation is nightmarish. And then there are other intangibles to consider like quality of customer service, coverage of mobile phones, connectivity down time. When are you going to setup city-wide wifi?!!!
Hey Tag 🙂
It was already a nightmare to compare similar offers and since then they introduced those integral offers.
Today offers are getting better.
There are so many wireless networks that we could write a client to automatically jump between those networks 😛