Spotnews
- Free allowance
- No free tier and no trial on the plans page read; the cheapest plan is EUR 4.49 a month.
- Verdict
- paidno free allowance; listed for its price
- Cost
- no price stated
- Identity
- card?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- per-ip-shaping10 Mbit/s and 50 Mbit/s tiers, plus an unlimited-speed tier
- Evidence
- documented5 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-04checked 2026-11-03 (live); stale on 2026-12-04
| Free tier | No free tier and no trial on the plans page read; the cheapest plan is EUR 4.49 a month. unit none; metered on none |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
10 Mbit/s EUR 4.49 a month (EUR 40.95 a year); 50 Mbit/s EUR 7.55 a month (EUR 72.50 a year); unlimited speed EUR 8.35 a month (EUR 79.99 a year). Yearly prices are shown as a monthly equivalent of EUR 3.41, EUR 6.04 and EUR 6.67. |
| Binding | per-ip-shaping Data is unlimited; the speed tier and its connection count bound a month. |
| Identity | card (placeholder) unverified: the page offers an automatic-renewal or one-time payment choice and the payment form was not opened, so its fields are behind a sign-up. |
| Egress | Unlimited data on three plans of 10 Mbit/s, 50 Mbit/s and unlimited speed; non-expiring block quotas on a separate page free allowance: unlimited |
| Retention | about 4000 days of retention ('Retentie: ± 4000 dagen') (4000 days) |
| Interface | nntp NNTP with encryption included |
| Composes with | Block quotas from 150 GB to 1,100 GB that do not expire are listed on a separate page (third-party index); the plans are speed-tiered. |
| Reliability | A third-party index lists the Abavia backbone; the vendor page read does not state one. |
| Notes | Priced per month and speed tier; block prices were not read. |
| Evidence note | documented Prices, retention and connections are from the vendor plans page read on 2026-11-03; the page is in Dutch. |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 5
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-03 | spotnews.nl/premium-plannen | part of the text of Free tier, above |
| 2026-11-03 | spotnews.nl/premium-plannen | retention is about 4000 days |
| 2026-11-03 | spotnews.nl/premium-plannen | 10 connections on the cheapest plan |
| 2026-11-03 | spotnews.nl/premium-plannen | part of the text of Binding, above |
| 2026-11-03 | www.usenet.org/providers/spotnews | a third-party index lists blocks of 150 GB to 1,100 GB and the Abavia backbone |