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A Year Ago: CallNet Reopens Totally Free Internet Floodgates
News CallNet reopens the floodgates. CallNet, the little ISP that went totally free and then buckled under demand, has reopened its customer registration process three months after it all got too much. CallNet failed to predict that unrestricted...
[February 7, 2001, 6:02]
News Burst: CallNet Overwhelmed One Hour After Launch
News This is despite assurances from CallNet on Friday that it had taken adequate steps to cope with the expected demand, with a spokesman dismissing as "ludicrous" analysts' claims that it would be overwhelmed with registrations.
[November 1, 1999, 8:38]
CallNet Latest Victim Of Unmetered Popularity
News CallNet is not the only ISP to find itself unable to cope with the demand for unmetered services. CallNet admits its customers are not happy with the current level of service. In the light of Oftel's ruling you may well see entirely new business...
[June 7, 2000, 15:39]
CallNet Launches Free Internet Service
News The UK's first totally free Internet service -- CallNet -- launches today. Barely 16 months old, CallNet claims its service will revolutionise the Internet access market in the same way Freeserve did.
[November 1, 1999, 7:00]
Exclusive: CallNet's Email For The Masses
News Email in Britain will no longer be tied to a PC with next month's launch of MailTV, a television-based online service "for the masses" from the company that launched CallNet. World CallNet plans to launch the service 2 December, ZDNet News has...
[November 12, 1999, 11:00]
CallNet Debut Highlights Need For Unmetered Access - Analysts
News The problems experienced by CallNet on its first day as the UK's first truly free Internet access provider, highlight the UK's need for unmetered access according to analysts, who remain sceptical on the long term prospects of the company.
[November 2, 1999, 9:16]
CallNet Reconnected After Emergency Talks
News Beleaguered unmetered pioneer CallNet is set to get up and running again after holding emergency talks with teleco Cable & Wireless, which has agreed to reconnect the ISP having reached a "commercial agreement".
[September 14, 2000, 17:11]
Update: CallNet Being Wound Up As Creditors Form Queue
News A former darling of the free Internet access model, CallNet, has had its phone lines cut and is being sued by its former public relations agency, ZDNet can reveal. Reports sent to ZDNet by a reader Thursday, claim CallNet's 0845 service was not...
[September 14, 2000, 9:55]
CallNet Reopens Totally Free Internet Floodgates
News CallNet, the little ISP that went totally free and then buckled under demand, has reopened its customer registration process three months after it all got too much. CallNet failed to predict that unrestricted, completely free dial-up Internet...
[February 7, 2000, 15:13]
CallNet Claims Success
News CallNet's free Internet access service is up and running with thousands of satisfied users. That's the message from CallNet, which is in the process of clearing congestion problems on its registration line.
[November 3, 1999, 7:00]
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. Since launching the service back in November, CallNet has been beset by problems.
[August 7, 2000, 16:50]
News Burst: CallNet Still Down, BT Hits Back
News CallNet, the first UK ISP to offer completely free Internet access, is still asking for registration details to be sent by email. However a BT spokesman claimed the telco had allocated the extra capacity ordered by CallNet on time, but was still...
[November 2, 1999, 12:39]
Exclusive: CallNet Goes For Europe, Partners Mannesmann
News Totally free access pioneer CallNet on Wednesday announced a joint marketing initiative with communications giant Mannesmann to deliver its free service across Europe. The deal, with Mannesmann's ipulsys subsidiary, gives CallNet access to...
[March 8, 2000, 15:16]
All Fall Down - CallNet Buckles
News Despite hopes that today would herald a new age of totally free Internet service in the UK, analysts' fears were proved well-founded today as CallNet floundered under pressure. Users of Callnet's "totally free Internet access" service were given an...
[November 1, 1999, 11:10]
A Year Ago: BT Blamed For CallNet Collapse
News It hasn't been a great start for CallNet, it could be even worse for BT. CallNet is blaming BT for its collapse Monday saying the telco cannot handle the volume of calls to its 0800 service. A CallNet spokesman told ZDNet this afternoon that the...
[November 1, 2000, 6:02]
BT Blamed For CallNet Collapse
News CallNet is blaming BT for its collapse Monday saying the telco cannot handle the volume of calls to its 0800 service. A CallNet spokesman told ZDNet this afternoon that the problems were not related to its infrastructure but to BT's.
[November 1, 1999, 12:54]
CallNet Launches MailTV
News Paul Goodman-Simpson, CallNet CEO believes it will provide cheaper Internet usage for those not wired through their PCs. The interactive service will allow users to send and receive email, chat, shop and carry out home banking using simple text...
[December 7, 1999, 6:45]
TechTrader: World CallNet's Background Of Oil, Telly
News World CallNet (www.world-callNet.com ) has two main lines of business: a free ISP and a TV-based Net access system. At that time World Wide (as it was then known) was already engaged in designing technology for TV-based Net access and in operating...
[October 28, 1999, 7:13]
Free Net Access: Industry Questions CallNet Scheme
News Even before the CallNet 0800 service gets off the ground, consensus among experts and observers suggests that either its business model or its infrastructure will collapse under sheer weight of demand.
[October 28, 1999, 12:40]
News Burst: CallNet Buckles, Suspends Registrations
News On its first day, just hours after its launch, CallNet has admitted it is not able to cope with demand for its free Internet service. Despite numerous attempts, CallNet was not available for comment. The company assured ZDNet last week that it had...
[November 1, 1999, 10:50]
