There are two carriers in cyprus both of which offer high speed internet access via cell phone/usb 3g modem.

www.mtn.com.cy

www.cytamobile-vodafone.com

Fair Use Policy or Fair Access Policy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Access_Policy

Port Filtering einai vasika restriction pas to internet access me to aspoume na klinoun sikekrimena ports, na min dinoun tin idia protereotita sto web kai sta alla ports etc etc

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AiKV5FFLjr3FcGVIbHZXN0htbWcyUzZFS1RXZVVlQ1E&hl=en

My understaning is that he wants to do the following

cyta adsl modem <---> Linksys Router <---> STB(CytaVision)

Most likely it will not work
Most linksys routers do not support multicast and if they do their support is troublesome, as a result your network will suffer.

 
85 euros for 4Mbps!!! Hurry everyone

It is unlikely that cablenet is available in those areas.
You can find the postcode of each area from the postcode directory
http://www.mcw.gov.cy/mcw/DPS/dps.nsf/All/E586E623E26BD0CBC225744A00234DB4/$file/Postcode%20Directory%20October%202009.xls?OpenElement

Sorry dude what the hell has that got to do with what i posted ?

Please explain

Posted on: November 16 2009 02:15PM
Hmm that is a few days ago. So please stop hijacking threads and spamming the forum with irrelevant issues. You do not need to reply on each and every thread when you have nothing relevant to say.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_%28Internet%29

The truth is that in fact all providers can offer better prices but they have no incentive to do so because currently cyta is being restricted by the OCECPR and monopoly law. In essense the private providers are right now charging too much making huge profits in order to build up their network. Since they are already making significant profit there is no reason to decrease prices and in effect gain more subscribers because once they gain significant market share cyta will no longer be restricted and will fight back.

To sum it up
yes they are charging too much and with clever advertising (free crappy laptop)they are luring ignorant customers when in fact their pricing is only about 50 cents cheaper than cyta. So for 50 cents you are getting
1. 2 year contract
2. The hussle of a new installation and the price u will need to pay
3. a crappy laptop
4. Bad to shitty customer service
5. terrible terms and conditions / fair use policy

and all of the above for the amazing offer of being behold!!!! 50 cents cheaper than cyta. 

On the other hand you can go to cablenet and with 23 euros which is half the price of any other provider and say no thanks to their sneaky marketing.

A lot of primetel customers are already leaving for cablenet already as indicated in the last survey released by the OCEcPR

http://www.ocecpr.org.cy/nqcontent.cfm?a_id=2687&tt=ocecpr&lang=gr

So if you want things to improve our only hope is that cablenet gets all of primetels customers so that they wake up and realise that they have other competition besides cyta.

P.S. Efrem pls do not hijack or post irrelevant things on this thread.

It is not ignorance that is causing this problem. The city council members have property near the landing station  and are concerned that their beachfront property will be devalued because of it. I anycase the cable was successfully landed as shown on primetel's website. I do not know whether the council objections restrict it to be operational but in any case the prices of broadband in cyprus do not depend solely on this development. If cablenet can offer significantly lower prices why primetel does not also? Offering a shitty laptop with a 2 year contract and a price 0.50 cents cheaper than Cyta is not I would call free market competition. It is more like consumer scamming!

According to the law that governs electronic telecomunications primetel must publish their interface settings so that any modem will work.

Cyta has already done this see link below
http://www.cyta.com.cy/interesting_links_texnikes_prodiagrafes_diepafon_el.htm

If primetel does not publish the settings required then they are violating the law and a complain can be filed to the ocecpr
http://www.ocecpr.org.cy/

Cablenet started running their cables at Anthoupoli.
They are still working on covering the whole area, but they seem to be progressing fast.

Anyone with inside information on when they expect to get online?

Updated Price list again with Cytanet's new 4mbit speed.

Regarding cablenet the price in the spreadsheet is
for two-play with at least telephone and internet. Since there is no such package i am using the triple-play price

I have updated the two-play price list.
Updated Otenet prices
Added Mynet Prices

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=peHlvW7Hmmg1xEUpMKsCcSQ

Changelog
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Updated Primetel Prices to reflect new pricelist
Updated increased price of LTV &Alfa for both Primetel and Cyta

Hi efrem,

In fact the package for cablenet included in the two-play comparison is the triple play because the requirement is to have telephone and internet. Since they do not offer it ,
I included them in the comparison with their triple play package. In any case they are still the cheapest.