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Flat-rate AOL survives in UK, despite German angst

...the UK BT must provide a wholesale unmetered narrowband Internet access product -- FRIACO -- there is no such compulsion on Deutsche Telekom. AOL launched the lottery... Read more

26 February, 2003 by Graeme Wearden

Internet price cuts may never reach consumers

...unmetered Internet access products by 8.5 percent. These products, known as FRIACO (Flat Rate Internet Access Call Origination), are used by ISPs to provide... Read more

19 July, 2002 by Graeme Wearden

ISPs clash in Friaco row

...out over the weekend in the ISP scene over the reliability of Friaco -- the tariff that makes unmetered Internet access commercially viable. St Friaco, or... Read more

12 November, 2001 by Graeme Wearden

BT Openworld offers unmetered deal

...offer will be available from the spring and will be based on Friaco (Flat Rate Internet Access Call Origination) which was introduced last month following... Read more

9 March, 2001 by Jane Wakefield

Red Hot Ant halts unmetered signup

...on confusion over the rollout of BT's unmetered package for ISPs, Friaco (Flat Rate Internet Access Call Origination). Red Hot Ant halted sign up... Read more

8 January, 2001 by Will Knight

Exclusive: BT forced to offer better unmetered solution for ISPs

...has learned that BT (quote: BT) has been forced to rewrite its Friaco unmetered offering following intense negotiations with WorldCom, the network carrier that complained... Read more

19 July, 2000 by Richard Barry

BT to fight Internet access price cuts

...a 7 percent cut in the cost of what is called DLE Friaco. This product is sold by BT to rival telcos such as Energis... Read more

20 February, 2002 by Graeme Wearden

Oftel plans changes to unmetered Net access

...to the way that BT provides flat rate Internet access call origination (Friaco) -- the wholesale product that allows ISPs to give their customers Internet access... Read more

28 January, 2002 by Graeme Wearden

UK home Internet usage levels off

...to the Internet at all if unmetered packages did not exist. "Since Friaco came in, operators can go again to BT and get a flat... Read more

6 November, 2001 by Wendy McAuliffe

Supanet offers unmetered service

...is the latest in a host of ISPs to take advantage of Friaco (Flat Rate Internet Access Call Origination), the wholesale unmetered product Oftel forced... Read more

25 April, 2001 by Jane Wakefield

ISPs not immune to tech gloom

...BT to roll out a viable and usable wholesale unmetered model -- dubbed Friaco. Freeserve, World Online and AOL are all now offering Friaco-based services... Read more

4 April, 2001 by Jane Wakefield

High prices stifle UK Internet use

...particularly surprising given that the UK is the only country to offer Friaco-based services, which give users as much Internet time as they want... Read more

28 March, 2001 by Jane Wakefield

Tiny offers improved unmetered service

...of PC manufacturer Tiny, is to offer an unmetered service based on Friaco. The service is due to launch at the beginning of April and... Read more

13 March, 2001 by Jane Wakefield

Breathe to launch unmetered offer

...said the new service would be based on British Telecommunications' (quote: BT) Friaco (Flat Rate Internet Access Call Origination) package. "In line with other major... Read more

26 February, 2001 by Matthew Broersma

2000 Roundup: A Year of unmetered access? Pt II

...offered all the ISPs jumped off the SurfTime boat and on to Friaco. And while Oftel was keen to take credit for this vastly improved... Read more

23 December, 2000 by Jane Wakefield

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