Eutelsat deservedly won plenty of editorial space last week with its news that its Ka-Sat multiple spot beam satellite was now offering a series of extremely competitive TooWay residential ‘broadband-by-satellite’ services. Eutelsat’s TooWay, said a Press Release, would offer users speeds of up to 18Mbps, an increase of 8Mbps. The release quoted a price of €24.90 for its ‘Flat 8’ service.

A new entry level package is also being launched, offering download speeds of up to 2Mbps and upload speeds of up to 1Mbps for an expected retail price of €19.90.

Unfortunately, the ‘Flat-8’ pricing was wrong. TooWay’s ‘Flat 2’ entry-level package is available at €19.90 but it offers just 2 Mb/s download, and 1 Mb/s up-load, with a pretty minuscule consumption level of just 2 GB per month of ‘consumption profile’ after which users can stay connected, but at a squeezed 128 kb/s bandwidth.

TooWay’s ‘Flat 8’ scheme (8 Mb/s download, 3 Mb/s up) and a total monthly consumption of 8 GB should have been quoted at the €29.90 rate (and not the originally mentioned €24.90), while a ‘full’ service of 50 GB/month (18 Mb/s download, 6 Mb/s upload) will cost users €89.90.

Eutelsat issued a clarification press release onto the news-wires in the early hours of Saturday morning, and making the pricing clear.

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2. Thuraya-3 suffers major problem
3. AST SpaceMobile hit by Class Action
4. Optimism under threat at SES
5. Rivada visits Terran Orbital’s manufacturing HQ
6. Avanti wins spectrum debt obligation case
7. SpaceX breaks records for re-use launchers
8. IRIS2 already in trouble?
9. Intelsat contemplates next steps

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