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News Burst: BT Forced To Provide Cheap Access
News Telecoms watchdog Oftel has announced tough new measures that will force BT to provide other operators with a wholesale flat rate Internet access product from February 1st 2001. Take me to the Unmetered Access Special
[November 13, 2000, 12:38]
News Burst: Cheap Net Access Top Of Gov't Agenda
News Cheaper Internet access is at the top of the government's e-agenda according to e-Minister Patricia Hewitt. Speaking at the Scrambling for Safety Conference Thursday, the UK's first e-Minister claimed cost of peak hour access had "got to come down".
[September 23, 1999, 15:44]
Cheap Net Access Top Of Gov't Agenda
News The UK's first e-Minister claimed cost of peak hour access had "got to come down" but explained it was not her job to set prices. But despite her obvious understanding of the issues that have fuelled debate over BT's monopoly, she did not offer an...
[September 23, 1999, 16:51]
BT Chief Mauled Over Web Access Gaffe
News People who can't will go to schools in the evenings for cheap access. CUT agrees that cheap access in schools is an important issue but believes it is in homes that usage will be most important. Those who cannot afford Internet access should go to...
[November 3, 1999, 11:02]
BT's Net Monopoly Ends Wednesday
News With the increased take-up of cheap access Johnson believes there will be times "when the service overloads". The telecoms watchdog has ordered BT to give rival operators access to its network following a complaint from WordCom that BT's own...
[May 31, 2000, 14:06]
Feel-good ISP Offers Flat Rate Surfing
News Jumping on the bandwagon of cheap Net calls, Care4free will offer flat rate 1p per minute online access with no monthly charge from July. Take me to the Unmetered Access Special Managing director of Care4free Kelvin Trott believes consumers are...
[May 23, 2000, 14:03]
Open-source Wi-Fi Links Remote Communities
News We need to think of ways to bring wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) applications to the developing world, so as to make use of unlicensed radio spectrum to deliver cheap and fast Internet access," he said. While a lot of attention has been focused on...
[July 8, 2004, 11:45]
The Day Ahead: PeoplePC Faces Stiff Odds
News Under the pacts, PeoplePC would supply Ford and Delta employees with Net access, PCs and services on the cheap. PeoplePC sells Internet access and PCs to "members" for $24.95 a month over a three-year term.
[August 8, 2000, 12:04]
Get Some Laughs And VB.Net Info With VBTV
News With production values that you'd expect from a late-night public access show and more than a few oddball characters, VBTV delivers some important information about Microsoft's newest version of Visual Basic in a surprisingly fun and campy format.
[September 27, 2002, 19:45]
Agere Chips Ring Up Wi-Fi Internet Phones
News The 802.11b standard, also known as Wi-Fi, allows wireless Internet access usually within a radius of approximately 100 metres around a hub. The chipset package includes the T8307 VoIP system-on-a-chip, the WL60010 802.11b media access controller...
[July 15, 2003, 11:50]
Voice Over IP Gateways
Talkback What about access to the corporate telephone directory? What is the point of giving a worker access to business telephony at home if they don't have the same feature set they are used to in the office?
[May 11, 2005, 17:26]
Jane Wakefield: How We Can't Resist A Bargain
News Take me to the Unmetered Access Special While curves charting the expedential growth of all things Internet and e-commerce have always been steep, unmetered access has sent the axis off the chart entirely.
[June 12, 2000, 17:00]
3Com: Four Ports In Every Socket
News Future additions to the socket could include security features and maybe even wireless access. The managed version will allow VLANs to be set up to the wall socket, and security will eventually be applied to the port.x access control would be...
[January 16, 2003, 11:49]
Free Model Is Not Sustainable - Experts Agree
News The UK market is not yet capable of financing such completely free Interent access players on advertising and commerce revenues alone," he said. Subsidising telephone charges will become an expensive marketing strategy for free access players," he...
[March 15, 2000, 6:34]
Analysis: Music Will Survive
News Limited bandwidth and the high cost of Internet access in the UK make downloading music, even with simple to use programmes like Napster, inconvenient and expensive for the average user. Once there is a legitimate framework giving ease of access...
[April 6, 2000, 10:46]
Pick The Proper Hardware For Your Exchange 2000 Server
News If one of those servers were to go down, you'd have 200 users without mail access, but the other 800 users would be able to keep working. If one processor needs to access the hard disk, it will have to wait until the other processor is finished...
[April 18, 2002, 10:58]
Spam Marks Double Figures
News All you can eat," unlimited-access plans common today were not widely available, and connection speeds were slow as molasses by comparison with current standards, making bandwidth precious. Now, people with unlimited Internet access and broadband...
[April 13, 2004, 10:35]
Telewest Moves Into Home Wireless
Talkback what a load of crap.if they offered cheap broaband access, i would connect.this wireless bollocks isn't going to make me connet to their broadband service.if they charged £15 a month for a 1mbps line, i wouldn't think twice about taking them up on...
[August 5, 2003, 22:13]
Remote Access
Downloads Remote Access is a cheap, powerfull, and simple remote administration/monitoring tool with many advanced features like 128-bit encryption, Desktop, IP Filtering, NT Security, Full control, file transfers, telnetting, remote shutdown, and remote...
[June 18, 2005, 4:46]
Good Enough Customer Service?
Talkback The charitable donation is a nice gesture, but a week's free access for the headache of not having email access seems a bit cheap. pagename=Customer_Service:_Email_Can_Make_or_Break_Your_Reputation Is that donation and a free week’s access good...
[August 28, 2007, 23:27]
