FRIACO is available on a standard BT line, ISDN Home/Business Highway and ISDN2e.

Please note that FRIACO is a contended service, unlike our other dialup products. At peak periods you may not get a connection. The calls are handled by BT equipment which means that some Zetnet services are not available, such as the news servers and ISDN channel bonding. Outgoing e-mail is provided via Authenticated SMTP, which most e-mail clients support, including MS Outlook Express. A compressed news service is available through our own ZIMACS software.

Each FRIACO dialup account has an allocated number of hours per month, as shown in the table below, but unlike some other ISPs, we do allow extra hours to be added to the account. Hours are allocated on a monthly basis with entry level accounts including 100 hours per month of connectivity. Your account can be upgraded to include additional hours each month, or new hours can be requested as needed.

A Web page is available for checking the number of hours remaining here.