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Because of the unavailability of ADSL for the average worker in its early days, an enormous number of wireless ISPs (based on either 802.11b or 802.11a Wi-Fi technology) came to an existence offering reasonable priced monthly-plans since 2003. By the half of 2007 there was about 800 alternative, mostly local WISPs that had enormous market share of the broadband internet access. It is estimated Wi-Fi ISPs have about 350 000 subscribers by 2007. The Czech Republic has the most Wi-Fi subscriber in the whole European Union. ADSL In the Czech Republic , ADSL became commercially available at the beginning of 2003 by then-monopoly operator Český Telecom with basic speeds from 192/64 kbit/s to 1024/256 kbit/s. The start-up of ADSL was very slow due to overpriced plans (~€350 per month for 1024/256 kbit). At the beginning of 2004, Local Loop Unbundling began, and alternative operator Telenor offered ADSL (and also SDSL) via its network with speeds up to 4096/384 kbit/s. This, and later privatisation of Cesky Telecom helped drive down prices. As of January 2006, ADSL is offered in many variants, both with data limit and without with speeds up to 5120/512 kbit/s. Some operators started offering ADSL2 technology via LLU (although on ADSL1 speeds) at the end of 2005, with Czech Telecom planning full speed ADSL2(+) later this year. On July 1 , 2006 , Český Telecom was renamed to Telefónica O2 Czech Republic . The typical ADSL connection in Czech Republic is 1024/256 kbit/s {Link without Title} with a data limit of 3 - 10 GB. Speeds, data limits, Fair User Policy (limiting link speed based on amount of transferred data) and overbooking vary per each ISP, but basically, settings offered are: Telefónica O2 Czech Republic Network {Link without Title}
Cable internet is gaining popularity with its higher download speeds beginning at 2 Mbit/s up to 20 Mbit/s. The biggest ISP, UPC (which has bought another CATV internet provider Karneval in 2007) is providing its service in big cities ( Prague , Brno , Ostrava ) UPC chello
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