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Hello Surftime, goodbye free ISP

...the regulator, and Energis, have to sit down and agree that the Surftime plans won't actually put Energis out of business, or even reduce... Read more

17 January, 2000 by Guy Kewney

BT's SurfTime is a flop

...its marketing campaign BT has attracted just 200,000 users to its SurfTime service, it emerges Wednesday. The figure is well below BT's expectations... Read more

24 August, 2000 by Jane Wakefield

BT's day of reckoning: Oftel acts on SurfTime

Telecoms watchdog Oftel on Friday issued a major blow to BT's SurfTime service, ordering the telco to offer a wholesale version to other operators... Read more

30 May, 2000 by Jane Wakefield

WorldCom takes on BT, offers alternative Surftime

MCI WorldCom is to roll out an alternative version of Surftime following a successful anti-competitive complaint against BT it is revealed Tuesday... Read more

18 April, 2000 by Jane Wakefield

BTopenworld resets the meter on unmetered Web access

...to place new limits on the amount of time its Anytime and Surftime customers can spend online. From 1 November, Anytime users will be restricted... Read more

30 September, 2002 by Graham Hayday and Matthew Broersma

Eye2Eye: Oftel's Edmonds on unmetered

...allow operators to roll out alternatives to the telco's unmetered service SurfTime. Although BT was required by Oftel to make a wholesale version of... Read more

28 November, 2000 by Jane Wakefield

Jane Wakefield: A woolly tale of a telco mammoth

...word Peter Bonfield will not want inscribed on his grave it is SurfTime. Of all the blunders BT has been a party to, SurfTime has... Read more

5 June, 2000 by Jane Wakefield

SurfTime disappoints - attracts just four ISPs

...Britain's estimated 400 or so ISPs will offer British Telecom's SurfTime when it goes live Thursday. Even BT's own Internet firm will... Read more

1 June, 2000 by Jane Wakefield

BT: SurfTime "could die a death

As SurfTime launches Thursday, BT (quote: BT) admits its flagship unmetered service could "die... Read more

1 June, 2000 by Jane Wakefield

BT's Net monopoly ends Wednesday

...network following a complaint from WordCom that BT's own unmetered service, SurfTime, was anti-competitive. The ruling means competing operators will be able to... Read more

31 May, 2000 by Jane Wakefield

Tenner a month

...lot of hot air and noise about how a "wholesale" version of SurfTime might be launched, against BT's real desires, after dynamic and vigorous... Read more

31 May, 2000 by Guy Kewney

Oftel: BT's Surftime is anti-competitive

...anti-competitive behaviour pointing the finger at its beleagured unmetered access service, Surftime. The telecoms watchdog has come in for criticism in the past for... Read more

19 April, 2000 by Jane Wakefield

BT's unmetered promise under attack

The UK's top two ISPs remain unimpressed by BT's reincarnated Surftime as the telco tells ZDNet that unmetered services will fail. As predicted... Read more

9 March, 2000 by Jane Wakefield

Jane Wakefield: Say hello Yanks, wave goodbye BT

...death of their monarch, so BT (quote: BT) is trying to raise Surftime from the ashes without admitting the original ever died. "There is no... Read more

6 March, 2000 by Jane Wakefield

Surftime is scrapped, Surftime II is born

BT has been forced by Oftel to scrap its unmetered Surftime service, and can no longer promise an unmetered Internet system by spring... Read more

29 February, 2000 by Jane Wakefield

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