May I ask this? Does ONVOL get its bandwith from Maltanet too? Neways it's good to hear tey are doing soemthing to improve our internet connection I've been happy with the upgrades done by our ISPs during the last year.

Oh another question, so this means that now there is also Vodafone providing bandwith, thus competition? In the article there is written that 'some international businesses would not have come to Malta undless there was a second bandwith provider for back-up'... he's talking about Vodafone right?

OnVOL gets bandwidth from both Maltanet and Vodafone - at least that's what they say, therefore, if this move by Maltanet helps make bandwith cheaper, this would affect everyone, because hopefully, ISP's will start buying more as demands grow. And in part you mentioned, yes, he's talking about Vodafone, who are their competitors. He sounded a bit too positive by saying that it's a very positive that there's Vodafone as well providing the bandwith, but that also means that now, they are ready to accept and welcome competition, and abandon the outdated monopolistic beliefs.

Unfortunatly I think this time round, Maltanet is going to be the only benificary of this in terms of more profit due to lower costs per mbit, and most probably not even their clients.

Onvol do use both Datastream and Vodafone, although I havent been able to figure out which route they decide to use ... for example a tracert to 216.92.150.222 routes via Vodafone (16 hops / 152ms) but the route to 216.92.151.75 goes via Datastream (13 hops / 165 ms) -- notice how "close" these IPs are to each other - both addresses terminate at Pair Networks in Pennsylvania

Hopefully they will increase the transfer limit too. Not just the speed. Their prioritization system is unacceptable. We pay for 2mbit internet for 30 days. And not for 30 days of internet connection with 2Mbit speed until they decide i've downloaded enough!!