Broadband comparison site Broadband Genie
http://www.broadbandgenie.co.uk/
welcomes news that Freedom2surf has launched a broadband service specifically for gamers.
Broadband 4 Gamers is an up to 8MB service claiming to offer 50% lower ping times, prioritised traffic and just two hops between a gamer's router and the game server.
Broadband 4 Gamers costs at £24.99 a month and comes with a 50GB bandwidth limit. Other features of the package include 500 minutes of free home phone calls, 20 email addresses with 200MB storage each, 200MB of web space and a 20GB Giganews group allowance.
The service runs over the Wireplay gaming network, which is housed in the same data centre at which the gamer's ADSL connection terminates.
The service also gives subscribers free access to a selection of games on Wireplay, including Half Life, Quake 2 and Ultima.
Broadband Genie CEO Philip Wilkinson says: “This is a great deal for people who play a lot of games online. Most broadband connections are fine for web surfing and downloading music, but gamers need a service optimised for performance.
“Broadband 4 Gamers also aims to provide a smoother broadband connection by cutting out the interruptions from traffic management – essential if you want a quick trigger finger advantage on the top games around at the moment.”
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Notes to editors
1. Broadband Genie allows users to compare broadband online, and is part of Genie Group.
2. Genie Group Ltd is a leading independent provider of internet comparison shopping services in the UK, and was set up in 2004 by Philip Wilkinson (co-founder of Kelkoo UK). Genie Group’s unique selling point is 'the Genie', which makes personal recommendations to internet shoppers based on ground-breaking, intelligent technology. This gives Genie Group the ability to provide an enjoyable and satisfying internet shopping experience, and deliver an unmatched quality of sales leads to our affiliate merchants. Genie Group launched its flagship broadband comparison service Broadband Genie in January 2005.
3. More information can be found at http://www.broadbandgenie.co.uk . Please direct all media enquiries to Ciaron Dunne. Interviews with Philip Wilkinson can be arranged on request.
