| Pricing | Different rate for Flatrate Accounts |
| Different rate for One-time Accounts | |
| Retention | 300 Days |
| Free Trial? | No |
| Quality | 99.5% Completion |
| Newsgroups # | 75,000 Newsgroups |
| Connections # | Connections |
| Privacy | SSL Available |
| Speed | |
| Monthly Plans | No |
| Metered Plans | No |
| Block Plans | Yes |
| Servers | Europe |
| Server Add. | |
| Payment | Visa, Master Card, Paypal |
| Support Info | Email and Phone Support |
| Support Email | support_en@simonews.com |
Deals / Special Offer / Discounted Pricing
There are no special deals or discounted pricing offered by Simon News.
Free Trial
As of the moment, there is no free trial being offered by Simon News.
Plan / Price Offerings
They offer, besides the paid packages, demo account that the user can use either 7 days or once the 500MB bandwidth is used. Naturally, the user is not obligated to cancel this account; it will cancel automatically.
It is interesting to see that the user can access this free account only if he or she provides the mobile phone number and the company will send free SMS with the activation code. This code will the user eventually submit to their website while activating the service.
Further, they offer both monthly and block accounts. The monthly accounts are available in both metered and unlimited traffic and the block account will expire after 5 years or once the available bandwidth is used.
There many options available so let us examine them more thoroughly. For the subscription (where the account will be automatically renewed) the prices are as follows:
- 10 Gigabyte: 4,95 monthly
- 25 Gigabyte: 8,95 monthly
- 50 Gigabyte: 11,95 monthly
- 75 Gigabyte: 15,95 monthly
- 150 Gigabyte: 28,95 monthly
- flatrate 1 Mbit/sec: 11,95 monthly
- flatrate 4 Mbit/sec: 18,95 monthly
- flatrate 16 Mbit/sec: 29,95 monthly
If the user decides to subscribe for only one month (the account will automatically expire after the subscription period), the prices for mentioned packages are 5,95, 10,95, 14,95, 19,95, 35,95, 13,95, 24,95 and 37,95 respectively. Let’s also mention that the user can subscribe for a period of 3 or 6 months and in those cases, the monthly price will be lower.
The pricing for the block accounts is as follows:
- 10 Gigabyte: 6,95
- 25 Gigabyte: 11,95
- 50 Gigabyte: 15,95
- 75 Gigabyte: 21,95
- 150 Gigabyte: 38,95
Connection Speeds / Server Locations
We have not tested the connection speeds of Simonews, but we observed from other reviews they are only standard.
On the website, the addresses of the servers are not provided, but 2 servers are available and each of them offer up to 8 ports of available download at 1 MB.
This means that the user can download up to 16 MB per second. Between 8 and 16 concurrent connections are available and the guaranteed accessibility through their redundant servers is 99.7%.
Technical Notes
There are no other technical notes on Simonews’ website.
Quality of Service
From June 1st of this year, they offer a retention that equals 500 days. The completion rate is 99.5%. Although we have not tested the service to confirm if this is true or not.
Customer Service
Simonews provides customer support through email and phone.
Conclusion
Simon News offers a decent service however there are much better deals out there both in terms of quality and price. We recommend our top Usenet providers list instead of SimonNews
