Internet and web hosting provider Freeola has informed ISPreview that they’ve just become the latest on a small list of UK ISPs to launch consumer home broadband packages based off Openreach’s new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) powered 1.2Gbps and 1.8Gbps (both 120Mbps upstream) download speed tiers.
The 1.2Gbps tier is being promoted alongside “average” advertised download speeds of 1Gbps (true gigabit) for £64 per month, while 1.8Gbps is being advertised with speeds of 1.6Gbps for £73 per month (average advertised uploads are 110Mbps for both).
One crucial point to make here is that both of these plans are sold alongside a short 30-day contract and include a static IP address, much like all their other packages. But customers will need to pay extra if they want to add a pre-configured broadband router to their package, which might be wise given that the new tiers will benefit from having a higher end device with a 2.5Gbps LAN port.