Pricing

One price for the whole service, however many multiplexes carry you.

£19.99+ VAT per service, per month, direct from us

One price, however many multiplexes carry you.

Rolling six-month contract. No hardware to buy, nothing to install, nothing to maintain.

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What the price includes

  • Your Icecast contribution feed, hosted by us free of charge
  • Encoding on our own dedicated hardware, in our secure datacentre, with redundant connectivity
  • Text and slideshow handling, driven from files your playout already produces
  • Delivery to every multiplex that carries you, from one synchronised, timestamped source
  • Continuous monitoring, with problems reaching us before they reach your listeners
  • Setup guidance and direct support from the people who built it
  • Every improvement we make to the encoder, as we make it

A single encode feeds every multiplex at no extra cost. It is processing that costs us, not capacity – our datacentre has enough connectivity to run the entire UK DAB and small-scale DAB network and still have plenty left over. If you need your service produced at more than one bitrate, where different multiplexes have allocated you different capacity for example, each additional bitrate output is charged at half the service price.

Through your multiplex operator

The Maxxwave Encoder is also available directly through participating multiplex operators, who handle setup and billing themselves and set their own pricing. Where your operator offers it, that is usually the best route: the integration is already in place, everything arrives on one bill, and operators can often offer more flexible terms than we do direct, including no minimum commitment.

Competitive wholesale rates are available to multiplex operators and system integrators through a self-service reseller portal, billed per day with no minimum term. If you run DabMan, you can enable the encoder for your services from your own dashboard today.

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