Westnet Upgrades its News Service
For the last year Westnet has been reviewing its News service; looking at ways to improve the customer experience and provide an overall better product. This process has involved the investigation of in-house news software and external News providers.
After careful consideration SuperNews was chosen as the new direction for Westnet News. SuperNews is the leader in Usenet services since 1995, SuperNews delivers unbeatable speed, performance and reliability, along with the most complete, spam-free content. SuperNews will allow Westnet to provide a more reliable and respectable News service to its customers without any extra cost, that is it will remain FREE. SuperNews also allows Westnet to increase its News offerings meaning a Premium based News Service may be available as an Optional Extra in the near future.
I believe this partnership with SuperNews will allows us to provide a much better News service. I appreciate your thoughts and comments regarding this move.
Posted by Jonathon Lanzon
June 15th, 2007 at 7:53 am
Text only? Or binaries as well? Or full binaries only on the premium $$$’s optional service?
I only ask because it is inevitable that comparisons will be made to Internode’s attempts to run a premium, full binaries, news service.
June 17th, 2007 at 2:09 pm
Dudley,
For now the service offering is the same as before, that is text only.
However we now have the flexibility to extend this service in the future.
June 22nd, 2007 at 2:02 pm
Great Westnet, keep up the good work.
June 26th, 2007 at 7:48 am
So, looks like I’ll continue to pay Giganews for a real usenet service. I’d rather be handing money to Westnet for my news service but until you guys support binaries that’s not gonna happen.