Business ISP Onyx Internet have announced some significant price reductions on its SDSL offerings, clearly as a result of BT's recent wholesale price drop. The move sees 2MB SDSL available from the ISP from £150 per month, a saving of £2,640 a year on previous prices.

Onyx are also offering their "Managed" variant of the above, which sees the ISP supply, configure and manage an SDSL router, for an extra £25 (+ VAT) per month on top of the above prices. Setup charges are £500 +VAT non-managed and £600 +VAT for the managed option.

Last week saw BT announce its cessation of its SDSL services to new exchanges due to poor acceptance - which is easy to understand given the price differential that ADSL affords compared with SDSL. However for those where high speed transmission in both up and downstreams is critical, SDSL clearly is the cost effective option given the lowly upstream speeds that are associated with an asynchronous connection.