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Screaming net: Localtel who

...will to all intents and purposes be your phone company." Customers using screaming.net will have to sign over their BT service to Localtel. They... Read more

4 May, 1999 by Jane Wakefield

Oftel investigates World Online

...is investigating the World Online takeover following over 50 complaints from disgruntled screaming.net customers. World Online has been swallowing ISPs such as screaming.net... Read more

8 May, 2000 by Jane Wakefield

Exclusive: Poor service leaves ISP customers Screaming

Screaming.net, has admitted to ZDNet News it is guilty of sub-standard... Read more

14 October, 1999 by Jane Wakefield

Court ruling silences screaming.net rival

...Localtel, the ISP behind screaming.net, has won a High Court victory against rival Telnet. The court... Read more

7 September, 1999 by Tony Hallett

Tempo suspends screaming.net CDs to fix teething troubles

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16 September, 1999 by silicon.com staff

A Year Ago: Oftel slaps anti-competitive order on BT

...the telcoms market. Small telecoms player Localtel used the service to launch Screaming.net, offering customers free evening and weekend Internet access as well as... Read more

27 October, 2000 by Jane Wakefield

A Year Ago: Unmetered access critical to the UK

...per-minute scheme -- from AOL's one pence per minute charges to screaming.net's free weekend and evening calls -- have confusing consumers but he... Read more

21 October, 2000 by Jane Wakefield

Oftel acts to end Calls and Access dispute

...voice calls as well as free weekend and evening Internet calls via screaming.net. Around four other firms offer similar services including discount telco NextCall... Read more

16 June, 2000 by Jane Wakefield

World Online goes freeish

...telcos including Telinco and Localtel and ISPs like strayduck, bun.com and screaming.net. From Monday all subscribers to the World Online family will be... Read more

10 April, 2000 by Jane Wakefield

World Online buys Localtel

...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... Read more

9 March, 2000 by Will Knight

Free Internet -- what you actually get, a ZDNet guide

It's a jungle out there. Unmetered access may be rolling like the proverbial stone gathering no moss, but trying to get... Read more

8 March, 2000 by Jane Wakefield

ntlworld - industry gasps at truly free model

...to switch to ntl as their telecoms provider, which is similar to Screaming.net's deal with Localtel, but on a bigger scale. Only BT... Read more

7 March, 2000 by Justin Pearse

BT Internet joins the unmetered access party

...off at midnight has been questioned by other ISPs. A spokesman for screaming.net, one of the first ISPs to offer unmetered access is unimpressed... Read more

29 February, 2000 by Jane Wakefield

Unmetered access to shake up free ISPs

...time per month by dialling 162 before voice calls. A spokesman for screaming.net -- a free ISPs which offers free dial-up time on weekends... Read more

8 December, 1999 by Jane Wakefield

BT chief mauled over Web access gaffe

...round one in the local pub, " said a spokesman for UK ISP Screaming.Net. "He [Bonfield] is assuming that the greatest communication device ever invented... Read more

3 November, 1999 by Jane Wakefield

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I would like a job for me and do good to their tackiness vellent my help I will do my best to help you mercie for all

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