For sale: Barry’s excess data

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

At a time when most ISPs are tightening their data caps, Zen Internet has just announced that it’s increasing the monthly allowance for its subscribers by 5GB, at no extra cost.

That means customers like me who are on the Zen 8000 Active Broadband service will now receive an allowance of 25GB per month.

That’s all smashing and lovely, but the odd bout of Call of Duty 4 on the Xbox 360 aside, I rarely do any significant damage to my data allowance (as you can see from the graph below, click to enlarge). In fact, this morning, midway through the month, I’ve only used 3.8% of my existing 20GB allowance.

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