Be Unlimited

BE Un Limited is an Internet service provider in the United Kingdom with the trading names "Be There", BE Unlimited or simply BE. It is part of Spanish group Telefónica Europe, who also own O2.

BE offers ADSL2+ services through BT's telephone exchanges via Local Loop Unbundling (LLU), with advertised speeds of up to 24 Mbit/s downstream and 2.5 Mbit/s upstream (subject to line length and quality), which would make BE the fastest mainstream ADSL ISP in Britain. Although its services were initially only available in selected parts of London, Manchester and Birmingham, BE has undergone a program of rapid expansion across the UK, and is now available in 1,247 of the UK's telephone exchanges.

Services and Fair Use Policy

All three levels of non-bonded ADSL service come provided with a leased "BE Box" (a branded Thomson SpeedTouch router) and unlimited/uncapped bandwidth usage subject to compliance with a Fair Usage Policy. Uncapped services are currently quite unusual from UK-based ISPs. BE does not stipulate any such restrictions in their small print, however BE has taken action against one user for excessive usage . Their policy states they will take action against users whose usage is '...so excessive that other members are detrimentally affected'.

One must have an active compatible telephone line to receive the service(either provided by either BE or BT or a reseller such as the Post Office). The majority...
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