Topic: Eclipse Internet

Eclipse Internet has announced that it is now carbon neutral after a 12 month assessment of it's business.

The CarbonNeutral Company measured a range of factors from electricity consumption to business travel and deliveries, including commuting by employees. it's carbon usage wasIt was measured at 23 percent which caused the ISP to invest in carbon offsetting programmes. These included wind farms in India, a methane capture project in Pennsylvania and a Ugandan forestry project.

It also plans to introduce further reductions it it's emissions, cutting it down by 10 percent over the next year. It will do this by simple methods, like switching unused equipment off, and using motion sensors and timers on lights and air-con equipment.

Eclipse Internet is offering new customers 8Mbps broadband for £9.99 for the first three months in it's 'summer sale' if they sign up by the end of August.

Business users can get an unlimited broadband connection for just £19.99 per month for the first three months.  Both consumer and business offers include free set up and hardware and no switching fee for existing broadband users.

Existing customers can also benefit from the sale as until 31st July anyone referring family or friends who move to Eclipse from another broadband provider will receive a referral payment of £40. Customers referring family or friends who are new to broadband will receive a £20 referral fee.

Eclipse Internet has extended its offer for reduced prices on it's SDSL services due to increased demand.

The price was dropped in September by 33 per cent, and the offer is being extended until further notice, the service includes free connection and equipment worth over £400 to those who sign up to Eclipse Internet’s SDSL 500, 1000 or 2000 services.

Eclipse have revamped it's product range and replaced two of it's previous products with the Evolution and Home broadband ranges.

Both will allow customers up to 8Mbps download and 448Kbps upload speeds, the Evolution product is a fixed price but the priority (i.e. speed) determined by the package during peak hours of 6pm to midnight. It seems only heavy traffic protocols will be actually targeted, these include P2P, FTP and USENET so actual surfing would not suffer, and the air usage allowance ranges from 20 to 50GB a month.

As Eclipse puts it...

  The package comes in four flavours.

The Home Broadband range is a standard broadband package with an usage allowance bundle, extra can be purchased for£1.75 a GB.

Eclipse are giving away 1000 .eu domains to mark the public registration of  the domain suffix, to date only holders of existing trademarks have been able to purchase the .eu domain.

From today, Eclipse will allow anyone to register for up to 10 free domain names as part of its 1000 free domains promotion. These domains will be free of charge for the first two years. Applications can be made for either .eu or .co.uk domains. For any .eu domains, applicants will have to wait until 7th April before their requests are processed at which point they will be informed as to whether their application has been successful.

Eclipse are also offering all domain name registration for only 25 % of the normal cost until 30th April, during this period, domain names will be registered for the normal two-year period for only £9.98 rather than the normal £40 fee.

Uk-bug.eu don't have the same ring to it though....

Eclipse Internet has launched a  new broadband package aimed specifically at teleworkers and very small or SOHO businesses.

Teleworker Broadband will  provide home-workers with Eclipse’s Enhanced Care package, which includes giving users prioritised support when required, including dedicated phone numbers for customer and technical support.
Also included is VIRUSshield and SPAMshield protection, which provides protection from viruses and spam.

A handy touch is that the package package offers 60 minutes of ROAM public Wi-Fi access per month at thousands of hotspots across the UK.

Prices start from £16.99 (excl. VAT) per month.

Eclipse Internet are offering its customers £30 for each friend or member of family that switches to any of their broadband products from another provider, and £15 for any customers' friends who sign up for their first broadband connection.

Eclipse Connect, as it's called, will replace it's other schemes but customers who have been part of Eclipse’s previous referral scheme can will have their points accumulated into a monetary value and sent the relevant amount.

The offer runs until the end of January and more details can be found on the Connect website.

The price of SDSL connections just keeps on falling with another ISP reducing it's prices.

Eclipse Internet has dropped it's monthly SDSL costs by up to £115, and throwing in free connection and modem on selected services if users sign before the end of the year.

Full details of pricing and conditions can be found at Eclipse.

Eclipse Internet has rewarded one its customers for 10 years of loyalty, with another 10 years of service - except this time its free.

The "winner", one Mr Nigel Kendal-Ward, originally signed up to Eclipse’s dial-up service way back in 1995 - citing that if anything went wrong, he lived that close to the Eclipse office, he could go knocking on their door for answers.

Congratulations to Nigel on his reward.

Eclipse have announced that they will be upgrading users on it's FLEX broadband connections, users will find that their speed has doubled at no extra cost. The FLEX range of products are unique to Eclipse and allows users to upgrade their speed to a maximum of 2Mbps, where line conditions apply, the benefit is that users only pay an extra cost depending on how long the connection is at the increased speed.

Existing FLEX Home 200 customers will not see any speed increase, but will see their monthly cost reduced to £29.99 saving them £10.

New customers can join Eclipse in July without any activation or migration fee, and includes a free modem. FLEX'ing the connection speed will be free for the first month also.