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Alcatel ADSL choice for France Telecom
News The commercial launch, code-named "Wanadoo Netissimo" is set for November. Alcatel has been promised exclusivity on the provision of service until the end of the year following a number of trials across France.
[August 27, 1999, 17:15]
Telewest: the nation's favourite ISP
News Customer satisfaction rankings from research company JD Power found Telewest ranked top of the providers, AOL second, followed by Wanadoo. The $6bn (£3.4bn) union between NTL and Telewest could prove that opposites attract.
[December 13, 2005, 16:25]
Ofcom accuses BT over broadband pricing
News Freeserve (now Wanadoo) alleged in 2002 that BT Openworld, the telco's retail arm, was selling its broadband at a loss. Ofcom believes that BT has infringed competition law in its pricing of broadband services, the UK communications regulator said...
[September 1, 2004, 14:25]
Freeserve denies one of top brass is leaving
News Last month its chief operating officer Frank Keeling quit following Freeserve's acquisition by French ISP Wanadoo. Freeserve denies that any of its executives are about to resign, describing the suggestion as "nonsense".
[April 26, 2001, 17:10]
Dixons may ditch Freeserve for AOL
News The service was sold to French service provider Wanadoo in 2001, with Dixons retaining a stake in the company. Electrical retailer Dixons is expected to sever its long-standing relationship with Freeserve and instead install AOL's Internet access...
[August 4, 2003, 14:10]
Concern grows about Bulldog's broadband service
Talkback I am with Wanadoo ) Thank you ! I am new to the P.C.world I would like to buy Broadband , but reading all these negative comments about Bulldog is making me very doubtful, about the whole business. Are there any reliable servors out there ?
[November 7, 2005, 14:16]
US portals to storm Europe - study
News Spanish Telefonica's Terra Networks, France Telecom's Wanadoo and Deutsche Telekom's T-Online. All but the largest European portals are likely to be defeated by larger, more aggressive American rivals, according to a report by Forrester Research...
[November 1, 2000, 14:37]
O2 spends £50m to Be a broadband player
News While Orange has its own broadband arm, formerly known as Wanadoo, and Vodafone plans to resell broadband initially, O2 opted for an acquisition due to the current climate in the broadband market. O2 has got itself into a bundle - the Spanish-owned...
[June 21, 2006, 9:45]
Incumbent telcos accused of plotting against VoIP
Talkback In Paris for example one can get TV, telephone and broadband delivered to your home via the France telecom socket and a contract with free.fr or wanadoo.fr. It is ludicrous that the existing analogue network providers should have so much power to...
[November 19, 2004, 9:12]
Concern grows about Bulldog's broadband service
Talkback I cant wait until our contract with these frauds expires, Im going straight back to wanadoo. Absolutelty appalling service, I cant believe they have the nerve to even advertise themselves- I need the internet for school work and usually get my...
[September 8, 2006, 22:37]
Freeserve loses two founders
News In December Freeserve was acquired by French ISP Wanadoo, creating Europe's second biggest Internet firm. As reported by ZDNet News last week, two of the founder members of ISP Freeserve are to quit the company.
[April 30, 2001, 16:16]
Europe could take five years to catch US in e-commerce
News With various local success stories, like Freeserve in the UK, Pixel Park in Germany, and Wanadoo in France, there are reasons to be optimistic, but more soberingly Europe is yet to produce a global net giant to compete with the likes of Yahoo!
[January 24, 2000, 17:21]
News Burst: Breathe.com gasps its last
News Freeserve, Britain's largest ISP, was recently sold to rival Wanadoo, owned by France Telecom. The Internet service provider Breathe.com collapsed under a load of £50m in debts last week, and on Friday PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) was appointed as...
[December 18, 2000, 10:35]
AOL takes fight to BT with £50m
News Local loop unbundling has become flavour of the month among several ISPs — Wanadoo announced last year that it will be spending €1bn on LLU. AOL is investing millions in local-loop unbundling (LLU), a move designed to help it compete in a higher...
[January 20, 2006, 15:45]
Universal throws Napster a lifeline
News or Wanadoo? Napster got a rare taste of good news yesterday as Vivendi, owner of Universal Music, announced that it might still be willing to work with the song-swap service if it survives its court battles.
[March 6, 2001, 8:48]
C&W announces massive UK staff cull
Talkback Yogesh@vedd.wanadoo.co.uk Offer these hard workers a real choice in life. Take an opportunity to grow your own business, folks. I offer a real alternative choice so that your pay check comes from your efforts where you are respected, treated equal...
[February 28, 2006, 12:44]
VoIP takes off
News Ofcom's estimates indicate that around 300,000 households use BT's VoIP services, with about half that number using Orange's offerings (recently rebranded from Wanadoo). Ten percent of UK households are now using various forms of Internet telephony...
[August 10, 2006, 16:25]
Decision due on 2002 BT broadband complaint
News But Freeserve, which has subsequently been rebranded first as Wanadoo and then Orange, appealed at the end of 2003, claiming that Ofcom had interpreted the law incorrectly. A complaint filed against BT back in the days when broadband was an...
[June 19, 2006, 17:30]
Interrupt Me!
Downloads Feature - repeat of sound once the popup alert is open (ie.for morning alarms) Feature - optional backlight on alert Feature - overrun indicator Update - navigation improvements: up/down buttons, delete icon Update - better error checking and a...
[July 18, 2002, 8:00]
NTL-Telewest merger finalised
News This may be an attempt to bolster its customer service reputation.according to a recent survey from research company JD Power which found Telewest ranked top of the Internet providers, AOL second, followed by Wanadoo.
[March 6, 2006, 12:05]
