Euskaltel Launches Cable Broadband Service

Cisco Systems(www.cisco.com) announced today that Euskaltel, the leading cable operator and broadband service provider in the Basque country in Spain, is introducing usage-based billing to its broadband services portfolio to enhance choice and lower the entry level to broadband services for its customers.

Euskaltel launched its usage-based broadband service in July 2005 to give its customers the broadest choice of bandwidth and billing options.

"Euskaltel is aiming to universalise broadband through a strategy of offering the best range of services in the market," said Aitor Marcaida, Director of Marketing, Euskaltel.

Idoia Uriarte, Network and Services Engineering Director at Euskaltel said: "Our cable access network is based on Cisco CMTS routers and we considered that utilising the embedded subscriber management features, based on a standard compliant solution, was the best way to deploy usage-based billing."