Unlimited ISP - 4.17 a month

michaelsutherland

Got an email from a company called activeware who are offering unlimited dial up for 4.17 a month. It looks like you have to pay for 12 months in advance (50). It says it is only on for 48 hours and then will go up to 60 a year. The link is

http://www.activeware.co.uk/special/

This is what they say

[font=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]Crazy Early Spring Offer! Anytime 12 Month Unlimited Offer - £4.17 a Month! ARE WE CRAZY?![/font]

2,000 NEW Accounts for Friends & Family of our Customers Only!
First 2,000 Customers ONLY! When it's Gone it's GONE!

This offer is for 48 hours only and will go up by £10 every 48 hours!
Right now it's only £50 for a FULL Years UNLIMITED Internet Access!
Sign-up now to get it for LIFE for just £4.17 a Month!

I don't know anyone that uses them so don;t know why I got the email, but I thought I would share it with everyone, as they say at the bottom of the link

Make sure you tell all your friends about it! Hurry! An offer like this only comes once!

Hope some of you find it of use.

carnet

Anybody have any knowledge of this lot ? Certainly seems cheap - but are they any good ?

lemon-man

On the website it states provided by Hauka on the activeware dial up faqs.

I think Hauka are company behind Gio Internet, which I read in a thread were going into liquidation. (gio not hauka).

I signed up with Gio Internet last year on similar package 80% of the time there are no problems but I have lost access to internet on several times once for over a week. Also when I started up there were quite a few problems with Username and password which took about a week and a half to sort out.

Cust Service very poor with Gio so no idea what it will be like with activeware.

But if I get another month out of them I think I will have got me moneys worth.

primosec

I'm extremely wary of this offer for two reasons - firstly, I found about about it simply because they spammed me with their email.

Secondly if it is the company behind Gio Internet, I'd advise everyone to steer well clear. They are simply the worst ISP I've ever come across - in terms of connectivity, customer service, reliability... well, everything really! In the end the only way I got my problems with them resolved was to take them to court. Ultimately very satisfying, but I'd rather not have had to go through all the bother.

alared

"You will have received this link from a friend or directly from us if you are a current/previous customer on our network, this SECRET package is through recommendation only and cannot be access from the main site. Sign-up now before its all gone!"

This is some blurb from their site.
Remember it is a SECRET package so they don`t really want anyone to know about it.

Jazzy_B

primosec wrote:

I'm extremely wary of this offer for two reasons - firstly, I found about about it simply because they spammed me with their email.

Secondly if it is the company behind Gio Internet, I'd advise everyone to steer well clear. They are simply the worst ISP I've ever come across - in terms of connectivity, customer service, reliability... well, everything really! .

I agree totally. I signed up for a similar deal. The service was good for 3 months, poor for 3 months, then unusable. You pays your money..........

amd

Hi all,

99% certain this and GioInternet are/were from the same stable. The e-mail (received mine today too) is so suspiciously similar (identical even!) to the £50 deal I received last May from Gio. Even the daily price increases!

I was an existing GioInternet customer last year and signed up (with heart in mouth) for their £50/year deal. I have to admit that I've not really had much bother - and I have certainly had my £50's worth.

However, with the controversy surrounding Gio at the moment, I really think you should check your facts carefully before signing up to anything.

Check out their reviews:-

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/review/censura.php?tsid=1&csid=0d8a90c22524bcc0dc9b14c94e1ac870&cmd=details&itemid=71

andy88_2

I got one of those Nigerian fraud spam messages at last, but I wouldn't quote it here, so I found this instead

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/cgi-bin/news/viewnews.cgi?id=EpAkAFppVAeWWChruz
Aug 19, 2004

Activeware Internet would like to respond categorically to some malicious posts on ISP review with regard to their current service provision.

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/review/censura.php?tsid=1&csid=467f9041050f78bc99d87df66a178e7d&cmd=details&itemid=71

INACTIVEWARE DISAPPEARS | Author:

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| Date: October 16, 2004

I have same problem. Had my monthly payment taken 3 times this month, I am only connected to the service through a back channel I forced them to give me when they had technical problems a while back, my actual account has vanished. I can't get through to any customer service number, or the hauku number or the head office number for hauku anyone else

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Abissmal service..... | Author:

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| Date: August 14, 2004

I have never encountered a worse ISP in all my life than Activeware

Perhaps it will improve

Domain Name:
activeware.co.uk

Registrant:
Freeway Solutions Ltd
Trading As: Activeware Consultants Limited

Registrant's Address:
184 Main Street
Prestwick
Ayrshire
KA9 1PG

Registrant's Agent:
Fibranet Services Ltd [Tag = FIBRANET]

Relevant Dates:
Registered on: 06-Oct-2001
Renewal Date: 06-Oct-2005
Last updated: 26-Jan-2005

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