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BT's new Net tariff gets the thumbs down
News ISPs, users and analysts joined forces Wednesday to slate BT's move towards unmetered access as little more than a PR stunt. The tariff is being touted by BT as a radical new scheme that will enable ISPs to finally offer unmetered access.
[November 10, 1999, 11:45]
Liberty Surf hits out at over-priced Internet charges
News French ISP Liberty Surf hits out at rip-off Internet charges this week as it launches its own unmetered service in Britain. Sukornyk acknowledges costs have come down since Alta Vista kickstarted the unmetered revolution in the UK but thinks more...
[May 19, 2000, 11:09]
CallNet ditches its free service
News CallNet, one of the first ISPs to provide unmetered Internet service in the UK finally admits it cannot cope with demand and ditches its free offering. LineOne cancelled its unmetered service last month and breathe threw 500 "bandwidth hogs" off...
[August 7, 2000, 16:50]
News Burst: Metered access holds back UK Net use
News The UK Internet market is being "dramatically" held back by the lack of unmetered access, according to research conducted by Durlacher. Interviews with 4,000 householders around the UK found that users would increase the frequency of their Internet...
[February 14, 2000, 12:25]
Critics: Net dialup price cuts mean more in BT coffers
News Cheaper Net calls negotiated between large ISPs and telcos are benefiting BT far more than consumers, according to the Campaign for Unmetered Telecommunications (CUT). AOL refused to discuss details of its negotiations but admitted the deal was...
[September 28, 1999, 17:23]
Forget BT's Surftime, Telewest launches SurfUnlimited
News The dawn of a "people's Net" was heralded today as cable company Telewest launched its £10 a month unmetered access service, SurfUnlimited. SurfUnlimited has already been lauded as the first realistic mass market unmetered service.
[February 14, 2000, 14:36]
News Burst: Questions remain over AOL Flat Rate
News AOL's "Flat Rate" offering opens a new era for unmetered Internet access in the UK, according to industry experts, but questions remain as to whether AOL will make the unmetered model work. Other ISPs have revealed to ZDNet that they've not been...
[September 20, 2000, 10:12]
News Burst: Internet on the box from ONdigital
News As unmetered Internet access struggles to find a viable business model, TV is beginning to steal a march on PC Net providers. BT is also involved in ONdigital's new offering, which has rejected the unmetered model in favour of BT's 1p per minute...
[September 6, 2000, 12:54]
BT: SurfTime "could die a death"
News As SurfTime launches Thursday, BT (quote: BT) admits its flagship unmetered service could "die a death" following Oftel's decision Friday forcing it to simultaneously roll out an alternative. Oftel effectively ended BT's dominance of the Internet...
[June 1, 2000, 7:47]
ZDNet to interview AltaVista's Andy Mitchell
News Late last year the UK found itself in the midst of an overnight unmetered revolution. But big brand names proved as vulnerable as the smaller players and almost as quickly as they were set up, the unmetered players started to fall.
[August 29, 2000, 16:40]
Update: Oftel's ruling to bring 'second wave' of price cuts
News The Oftel ruling Friday that forces BT (quote: BT) to sell a wholesale version of its unmetered access package, SurfTime will spawn a second wave of cheap access deals according to experts Tuesday. Under the new rules, which start Thursday, ISPs...
[May 30, 2000, 12:15]
Telewest broadband trial undercuts dial-up
News New subscribers to Telewest's broadband package will, for a limited period, get the service for less than the cost of most unmetered narrowband products. This is the same price as Virgin.net charges for its unmetered 56kbps Internet package and is...
[April 30, 2002, 12:48]
Another flat-rate ISP bites the dust
News The Leicestershire-based ISP, which offered unmetered Internet access for £12.95 a month, ceased trading on Wednesday and now faces possible liquidation. In January, Red Hot Ant stopped accepting new customers for its unmetered access service.
[April 19, 2001, 15:09]
BT offers 'heavy' users free ADSL installation
News BTopenworld has offered a free ADSL upgrade to 850,000 customers, including those who were penalised last month for allegedly clogging up the unmetered service. The offer has been sent to the BTopenworld Anytime and Surf customers -- many of whom...
[October 3, 2001, 11:23]
World Online buys Localtel
News Pan-European ISP World Online continues its shopping spree Thursday with the acquisition of telecommunications firm Localtel -- parent of Screaming.net -- in preparation to launch yet another unmetered Internet access deal in Britain.
[March 9, 2000, 18:05]
Jane Wakefield: Once upon a time there was the Net
News Bonfield had meant to promote a new BT service which will see colleges, schools and libraries across the UK given unmetered access with a 50 percent discount. If the UK public was Cinderella -- uninvited to the unmetered access ball -- then CallNet...
[November 8, 1999, 12:12]
AOL challenges BT over ADSL
News The ISP has been one of BT's greatest critics, lobbying for unmetered access for the last two years. Now Friaco (BT's wholesale unmetered offering) is beginning to roll out across the UK AOL has turned its attention to broadband.
[September 29, 2000, 10:26]
Oftel accused of bungling the unbundling process
News The unmetered telco is the latest operator to criticise unbundling. It has made no secret of the fact that its unmetered narrowband service is a stepping stone to broadband and has applied to become one of the operators allowed to colocate in BT's...
[September 26, 2000, 15:54]
UK regulator Oftel's role examined
News If it breathed a sigh of relief when unmetered narrowband services looked like opening up the market it would have been hiding under the sheets as unmetered ISPs fell by the wayside. Oftel, the UK telecoms regulator, is coming under increasing fire...
[September 27, 2000, 15:14]
Ezesurf hit by Trading Standards investigation
News As reported by ZDNet News last week the ISP is the latest victim of the increasingly chaotic unmetered market. It is not clear whether the ISP intends to pay refunds to any of its users, who paid a one-off fee of £39 in return for unmetered...
[August 30, 2000, 16:39]
