Topic: NDO

You don't often get anything for nothing - or so the saying goes, so how about something for less than before? That's exactly what NDO have done by doubling the monthly usage allowance on its Home500, 1000 & 2000 services whilst dropping prices too.

All 3 Home offerings now come with 10GB per month usage allowance, up from the previous 5GB and available for both new and existing NDO customers. Prices have dropped too, as can be seen in the table below :

New sign ups with benefit from free setup / migration as well as some free GoogleAdwords vouchers and a .uk domain name.

NDO's parent company, NamesCo are also pushing their hosting services. Those fancy giving them a try will find any hosting package available for just £1 for the first month during October. Additionally, new subscribers will get their hosting space doubled, some free Google Vouchers and a free domain name.

NDO have announced a plethora of packages which will allow users to pick the best for their needs. The products range from a 256Kbps 50:1 connection with a 1GB monthly allowance to a 2Mbps 20:1 covered by a Fair Usage Policy (FUP). The FUP according to NDO allows users to download up to 30GB in one month, users who exceed this will have their connection contended until their usage reduces to allowable levels.

* Extra download is £1.00 per GB

Activation and Migrations to all NDO Access Packages are free during July 2005.  Details can be found at NDO.

NDO have today announced that its been acquired by domain name and hosting provider, NamesCo.

From the press release, it appears that no changes are afoot for existing or indeed new subscribers, with the NDO brand continuing to exist.

For a number of weeks rumours have floated around of an impending price change come 1st July, with the only comment being a tantalising "You can, if you wish, speculate as to what our prices will be, or your could just wait until NDO announce them at the time on the day.".

Meanies.

Today, after £100,000 investment and 12 months in development NDO launch their NEWT Anti-Spam and Anti-Virus Protection System.
What's NEWT? it stands for "NDO Email Without Trash" (cool huh?) and NDO claim it's 85-90% accurate against spam and virus removal is 100% effective.

The NDO customer has complete control over the strength of the spam filter and can also choose how the system handles spam emails. Suspect emails can be automatically transferred to a special "Spam Folder" within the Inbox stored on the NDO servers for checking (using the NDO webmail facility) without the need to download them to the customers local machine. NEWT also includes user defined white-lists and safe email addresses. Customers using SMTP delivery will receive their mail marked as Spam for local sorting. To see how NEWT operates check the NDO site

Spam and Anti-virus scanning which was once a novelty, is now becoming part of the standard ADSL package for most ISP's

UK ISP NDO have dealt a blow to the booming broadband market in the UK with the announcement of a totally unrestricted 512k package for under £20. Whats more, they've also announced that a new 1Mb package is now under £30 including VAT.

The two new packages, "Home500 Upfront" and "Home1000 Upfront" contain no restriction on usage of neither time nor data, provides webspace, an email address. In both cases the term is a rolling 1 month contract. Both packages do come with a £65 activiation fee - in exchange for the lower monthly cost compared to the ISPs other packages on offer.

Based on subscribers who would pay monthly (which we would estimate would be the majority), over a year, the Home500 UpFront package costs an additional £5 extra using "Home500 Upfront" at £304.88 compared to NDOs "Home500 Standard" (at £299.88), due to the activation fee.

Again, using the "pay monthly" option, Home1000 UpFront however, goes the otherway around costing £6 less over the year (£424.88 against £430.88) than NDOs existing Home1000 Standard, though this is mainly due to NDOs retaining a £35 setup charge on the 1Mb product.

A unique point with NDO is the ability to pay monthly, quarterly, or even yearly in advance, thus realising further discounting.

Home500 UpFront.
Home1000 UpFront.

Another ISP have responded to the MK trials.

As well as announcing their involvement, NDO have confirmed their offering to potential trialists.
They are offering to cover all Activation and setup costs for any user taking part in the trial - the monthly subscription will be £24.99 a month, also have also reduced their ADSL Modems down to just £32.99 for any user signing up with NDO for the ADSL Broadband trial.
 

The full press release is in the forums.

Those eagle eyed amongst you might have noticed a new banner appear on Bug within the last 24 hours, citing a new migration offer from ISP NDO. So whats the deal ?

Migrate to either NDOs "500M" offering 512k for £19.99 per month (inc vat) or "1000M" a 1mb service for £31.99 per month (inc of VAT) and dont pay a penny for a migration free, a setup fee, or even an activation fee. Both packages come with a minimum of 12 month contract, but are totally unrestricted in terms of bandwidth usage .. something that is becoming a bit rare these days.

Last week we detailed how BTWholesale had reduced the costs charged to ISP in relation to migrating users, now at just £11+vat from a previous £35+vat. After NDO's announcement, expect to see other ISPs follow suit with equivilent offerings.