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Oftel Acts To End Calls And Access Dispute
News Calls and Access allows operators to rent lines from BT in return for taking over users' billing and customer services. CEO of NextCall and head of the Calls and Access interest group Andrew Harrington believes there are still outstanding issues.
[June 16, 2000, 16:14]
Major Retail Group Cuts Costs And Reduces Service Calls With NetOp Remote Control
White Papers NetOp Remote Control software provided Danfoss with a secure remote access solution for remote reboots from a web browser or an individual window. F GROUP is Denmark's largest retail electronics group.
[June 8, 2005, 0:00]
Chancellor Calls For Cheaper Net Access
News Internet access costs must to be halved in order to kick-start the e-commerce revolution, chancellor Gordon Brown claimed on Wednesday in a speech to financiers. In the speech, Brown expressed concern that the relatively high cost of Internet...
[February 17, 2000, 9:04]
USF Corporation: Revamped Portal Application And Enterprise Platform Improves Customer Satisfaction, Eliminating Two Million Service Calls Per Year
White Papers USFNet (www.usfnet.com) delivers unified access to a wide array of content and services customers needed to conduct business with USF. USF Corporation is the holding company for a $2.25 billion group of firms that provide comprehensive and...
[September 16, 2004, 0:00]
Skype Calls On FCC To Open Network Access
News And now it wants users who access the internet via a mobile device to be able to use their software and services, too. They dictate which phones are used on their networks, what content users can access, and which applications can run on phones.
[February 23, 2007, 8:36]
MEP Calls For Unmetered Access In UK
News Wallis called on Chancellor Gordon Brown to introduce unmetered access immediately. Unmetered access to the Web should have been the first move the Chancellor made," she said. BT's CEO Peter Bonfield claimed Monday at the Gartner Symposium in...
[November 3, 1999, 8:00]
Oftel Slaps Anti-competitive Order On BT
News Oftel on Wednesday accused BT of breaching its license by failing to deliver services under the Calls and Access scheme. Small telecoms player Localtel used the service to launch Screaming.net, offering customers free evening and weekend Internet...
[October 27, 1999, 11:44]
Critics: Net Dialup Price Cuts Mean More In BT Coffers
News As the government promises cheaper access costs and critics accuse Oftel and BT of dragging their heels on the issue, ISPs are desperately seeking out short-cuts to cheaper Net calls. The recent flurry of save-as-you-surf schemes are, according to...
[September 28, 1999, 17:23]
Pocket PC To Make Phone Calls
News Microsoft next Tuesday will announce an application that will let manufacturers using its Pocket PC 2002 operating system add wireless access for data and voice calls to their upcoming devices. The software will allow handhelds to access data and...
[February 13, 2002, 14:16]
Screaming Net: Localtel Who?
News The phone access comes courtesy of Localtel, a Surrey-based telecoms service, which became a BT customers services reseller in October under an Oftel scheme to open up the domestic market to competition.
[May 4, 1999, 8:22]
Ofcom: VoIP Services Must Allow 999 Calls
News This means any VoIP service allowing users to make calls to ordinary phone numbers must also offer access to the emergency number by early 2008. VoIP services are increasingly adopting the look and feel of traditional telephones, which increases...
[July 26, 2007, 16:27]
Frazzled Households Jam Anti-telemarketing Site
News A crush of consumers rushed a federal Web site launched on Friday to let people opt out of telemarketing calls, crippling the site's servers and slowing access to a crawl. Patel said access to the registration form itself, from the site, was also...
[June 30, 2003, 10:00]
A Year Ago: Oftel Slaps Anti-competitive Order On BT
News Oftel on Wednesday accused BT of breaching its license by failing to deliver services under the Calls and Access scheme. Small telecoms player Localtel used the service to launch Screaming.net, offering customers free evening and weekend Internet...
[October 27, 2000, 7:00]
Skype Revisits Rabbit With Free Wi-Fi Deal
News Broadreach, which operates wired and wireless public access networks around the UK, has agreed to allow free access to Skype's voice-over-IP service. The deal, announced on Monday, means that Skype subscribers will be able to access the service at...
[March 4, 2005, 12:15]
BT U-turns On Pricing, Set To Slash Net Charges
News In an interview with ZDNet UK News, a BT spokeswoman accepted the recent criticisms aimed at her organisation over Net access charges and suggested a solution: "If we had a new number range for data calls, that could address the problem," she said.
[October 26, 1999, 16:55]
Totally Free Internet Access From Monday
News Citing an eight month trial in Canada the spokesman says the company's experience suggests there will be enough voice calls made to support free Net access. Totally free Internet access will be offered for the first time in Britain, 1 November by...
[October 27, 1999, 10:32]
Press Release: Elite Devices Partners With Vonage & The Cloud And Looks Forward
Forum Vonage users will access The Cloud’s network via their Wi-Fi phone as soon as they are within range. Elite Devices has been involved within the Public WLAN industry for a number of years and supplied the Bluetooth Access Points for the first Public...
[July 10, 2006, 13:56]
BT Promises Truly Universal Broadband
News BT calls this access the "broadband dial tone", comparing it to the buzzing noise a fixed-line telephone makes to show that it is functioning. BT is planning to transform its UK telecommunications infrastructure into a pure IP-based network by 2009...
[June 9, 2004, 13:05]
Oftel To Take On New Role, Industry Reacts
News Oftel has long been criticised for its slow reaction to government, industry and consumer calls for cheaper Internet access in the UK. Lewis believes the best boost for Internet access in particular would be for Oftel to keep pressure on BT -- to...
[January 17, 2000, 15:48]
The Upcoming Of Internet Telephony
Blog It increases the overall productivity of an organisation through timely communication, web access and sharing of files. Companies now have started to undergo coalition whereby it is possible for different companies to undertake a venture to access...
[April 28, 2008, 8:03]
