<< And the unrestricted.net network costs more and offers less. >>
The UNRESTRICTED.NET service has just been re-launched:
http://www.unrestricted.net
And as far as uptime, that was remedied some time ago:
http://www.hyperspin.com/publicreport/57207/7765
That was primarily due to some carrier outages we had way back then, which has been remedied early last year with some network upgrades and improved redundancy...