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Netscape to launch free ISP Tuesday
News AOL, which purchased Netscape late last year, is the world's largest Internet service provider, and until recently held the UK's largest ISP subscriber base. The president and CEO of AOL Europe, Andreas Schmidt, will describe how Netscape Online...
[August 23, 1999, 15:10]
Connie spirits away £6m in AOL TV ad
News Half a million users now subscribe to AOL UK according to figures released this week making it the most popular online service in the UK. Jonathan Bulkeley, managing director of AOL UK says the service attracts a wide range of people, including...
[November 5, 1998, 9:07]
Dixons may ditch Freeserve for AOL
News Research company Forrester said that with 2.4 million subscribers, Freeserve is still the biggest dial-up ISP in the UK, but because it has been slow to provide extras such as instant messaging, AOL has almost caught up.
[August 4, 2003, 14:10]
Analyst says AOL growth is down
News He speculated that the free access movement in the UK could have been a factor in AOL's international sales. Shares of AOL fell $5 1/2 in afternoon trading, or 4.95 percent, as the volume of shares traded reached 21.9 million, compared to an...
[June 11, 1999, 10:24]
Rural broadband rollout hits problems
News According to AOL UK, one reason for Knaresborough's failure could be the complexity of BT's pre-registration scheme. ISPs have to individually contact everyone who expressed interest in the first phase, ask if they want to order broadband, process...
[November 11, 2002, 13:15]
Five years ago: The changing face of online services
News AOL in the UK is releasing AOL 3.0. AOL, CompuServe and MSN are unveiling their new access software products and announcing new content deals over the next few days. The UK team is headed by Steve Billinger, formerly of Diverse Productions.
[November 19, 2001, 6:00]
BT is holding back Broadband Britain
News Both AOL and Freeserve are on the verge of instigating legal action against BT, claiming that it is currently giving preferential treatment to its own ISP in the rollout of broadband services. It is envisaged that such a network would avoid the...
[February 19, 2001, 14:40]
Mixed reaction to Netscape Online
News The free Internet market is an established phenomenon in the UK and AOL would have to have some compelling content to stand a chance," she said. The service has only been up for five hours but there is already plenty of reaction to AOL's free ISP...
[August 24, 1999, 17:00]
AOL: We'll block Tribal Voice, too
News The move will also give Freeserve, the largest ISP in the UK, another weapon to combat AOL, which recently launched its own free service there. Tribal Voice said it will use protocols AOL had published earlier this year to let developers of Unix...
[September 8, 1999, 8:50]
Lacey's Paper Round
News Lex says the proposed Netscape AOL merger could be a "serious challenge" to Microsoft -- Financial Times, Lex Column As this Paper Round hits the Net, the AOL Netscape marriage bans are just being read.
[November 24, 1998, 10:00]
More ISPs cut broadband prices
News By bringing a free month concept to broadband we believe we have an unbeatable all-round offer," claimed Karen Thomson, chief executive of AOL UK in a statement. This is more expensive than some other ADSL packages, but cheaper than those offered...
[January 22, 2003, 15:51]
BT crawls towards 'unmetered access'
News One of the UK's largest ISPs AOL is not so impressed, accusing BT of simply repackaging old tariffs. Is this the start of unmetered access for the UK, or is AOL right? Warning users not to get over-enthusiastic about the deal, the AOL spokesman...
[November 9, 1999, 16:11]
LineOne fails, what future for unmetered?
News AOL -- one of the few UK ISPs not yet to offer an unmetered option -- puts the blame squarely at BT's feet. It is extremely difficult to introduce a service without a solid unmetered product from BT," says an AOL spokesman.
[July 17, 2000, 12:09]
Europe Internet not consumer ready
News Yasskin believes AOL will be at the forefront of the drive towards unmetered Internet access in Europe, describing its decision to offer UK users one pence per minute access as a "smart move". He predicts AOL will offer completely free access in...
[October 18, 1999, 15:50]
New AOL 8.0 smacks down pop-ups
News America Online on Tuesday said it will discontinue serving pop-up advertisements in conjunction with the release of AOL 8.0, the latest upgrade of its flagship Internet service. Executives of both AOL and its corporate parent AOL Time Warner...
[October 16, 2002, 8:53]
Firms denounce government broadband plans
News Unbundling of the local loop, viewed as a key component of creating a competitive telecoms market, has now seen nine players drop out and the wholesale service BT offers ISPs is under scrutiny following accusations from Freeserve and AOL that BT...
[February 15, 2001, 16:05]
Google searches for Euro success
News Its popularity in these two countries, and profitability in the UK for two straight quarters, is largely due to deals with T-Online, Germany's largest destination site; UK ISP Freeserve; and AOL Europe, which it has a deal with until February 2005.
[August 30, 2002, 11:53]
UK police ask for traffic data from ISPs
News Last Wednesday, a spokesman at AOL UK confirmed, "if the authorities come to us with the appropriate paperwork requesting information, we will comply. Last week AOL and EarthLink confirmed that they had handed over the relevant traffic logs.
[September 17, 2001, 14:02]
AOL 9 to include Web logging tools
News Introduced in AOL 9, which will be available in preview form this summer and will be launched in the UK early next year, the tool will let users update their blog by phone, over IM, or by the more usual method of filling in a form on a Web page.
[July 14, 2003, 16:02]
BT signs broadband deal with Dell
News Companies such as AOL and Freeserve, plus dozens of smaller UK ISPs, have long said BT has an unfair advantage when it comes to offering ADSL. AOL had a similar, exclusive relationship with Dell for 12 months, a period which expired recently.
[November 8, 2002, 13:32]
