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Free 5-day Trial
All new Giganews personal accounts come with 5 days of free service (up to 1.5GB total transfer).

This offer is only good once, and is not available to current Giganews account holders

I use giganews - its well worth it for getting better newsgroup access than most ISPs

Giganews have 3 types of account -

No setup fee on any account!
2GB for 1 month, 10 connections US$7.99
10GB for 1 month, 10 connections US$11.99
Unlimited GB for 1 month, 4 connections US$24.99

Why use giganews?

Speed
Giganews newsgroups benefit from utilizing redundant OC-12 connections to multiple Internet backbones, ensuring the USENET articles you request are delivered as fast as your Internet connection allows.
Reliability
Giganews is the benchmark for reliability in USENET, NNTP and newsgroup services. Our fully redundant systems allow seamless maintenance, so our customers consistently benefit from the high quality of our service even when we upgrade our infrastructure. Your search for your favorite USENET article will remain uninterrupted. Multiple upstream connections allow routing changes even when issues occur outside of the Giganews network.
Retention
Giganews' news servers offer up to 50 days of retention in multipart binary newsgroups, which includes alt.binaries newsgroups, mp3, video and software groups. News server retention in single part binary groups is up to 50 days, and retention in text newsgroups is over one year.
Completeness
Giganews offers newsgroups and an unprecedented 99% news server completeness rate in multipart binary articles such as alt.binaries newsgroups - yet to be matched by any other newsgroup provider. Of course, long USENET retention times are meaningless unless all parts of the binary attachments are available so Giganews leverages proprietary newsgroup feeding technologies to minimize or eliminate the problem of lost newsgroup articles.
Propagation
Giganews maintains peering arrangements with many news servers around the world to ensure that your posts are seen by newsgroup users globally, and that everyone else's posts reach Giganews.
Experience & Expertise
The Giganews staff holds decades of experience in managing, operating, and maintaining news servers. Because we listen to and understand our customers, we know what you expect from a premium news service, and we deliver our service better than any other provider.
Flexibility
The Giganews Customer Control Panel offers the opportunity to maintain your own account with options to upgrade or downgrade service, or even start the next month's service early.
Support
The Giganews support staff works around the clock to answer your questions and address any issues that might arise. We promise a same-day response, and we usually respond within minutes.
Value
Giganews provides the best value for your Usenet dollars. Why pay a budget provider that fails to deliver the news service you need? You can depend on the quality and reliability of your Giganews service.

Giganews Loyalty Rewards
Giganews Administration 02/26/03

Giganews is pleased to announce the Giganews Rewards program, beginning with the Giganews Loyalty Reward effective February 1st.

The Giganews Loyalty Reward is our way of thanking you for choosing Giganews as your news provider, month after month.

Under the Loyalty Reward program, we are awarding bonus download to all customers with full-service Giganews accounts. After you have completed 1 year with Giganews, the bonus download will be automatically added to your account according to the following schedule.

after 1 year: 2% of your current service level
after 2 years: 4%
after 3 years: 6%
after 4 years: 8%
after 5 years: 10%

Giganews will continue adding an additional 1% bonus for each year after the 5th year, for as long as you continue your Giganews service. You can view your current Loyalty Reward level at any time through our online control panel, at:

http://www.giganews.com/maint

If you upgrade your account, the size of the bonus will increase proportionally, since the bonus is a percentage of your service level.