Effective December 16th, 2006, new block pricing has been applied.

Click on the services link above to see the new pricing.

From the folks who brought you biggulp and the RFN network comes our first commercial venture offering premium usenet newsgroups access.

Octanews, a UseNet News provider offering accounts via multiple pricing tiers.

unlimited downloading via speedcapped services ranging from 3 connections at 128Kbps each to 4 connections at 1Mbps each

unlimited downloading speed via bytecapped services and non-expiring blocks ranging from 8GB to 100GB

Be sure to check out the status link for current network status.

Photos have been posted via http://www.octanews.com/photos.php.

Retention is currently:

Binary retention: Frontends are showing 9 days, backends are at > 9.1 days

Text retention: Frontends are showing 95 days, backends are at > 430 days