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Analysts Shrug Off Freeserve Share Drop
News Analysts and industry pundits have expressed little surprise or excitement over the news of Freeserve's shares sinking below their July flotation price of 150p for the first time. See "Freeserve, eXchange shares tumble".
[September 21, 1999, 13:37]
Freeserve Attacks AOL Over UK Customer Claims
News UK Internet service provider Freeserve has complained to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over a recent claim by AOL Time Warner that AOL UK is "the leading ISP" in Britain. Freeserve and AOL Time Warner already enjoy a difficult...
[January 22, 2002, 12:03]
Freeserve Unmetered Package Arrives
News Alternatively Freeserve and its partner Energis will extend the existing 'Freeserve Time' to include full unmetered access in exchange for a minimum of £10 per month spent on voice calls with Energis.
[March 14, 2000, 7:59]
Netscape's Ad Campaign Irks Freeserve
News The UK's leading Internet service provider, Freeserve, is miffed over suggestions that Netscape Online's competitors are "part-time Internet service providers", as seen on the new ISP's advertising. Freeserve is not impressed with what it...
[August 25, 1999, 9:04]
Campaign For Unmetered Telecommunications Dissolves
News CUT was founded in 1998, around the time that Freeserve sparked an Internet boom in the UK with the "free" ISP business model. Since the introduction of British Telecommunications' wholesale unmetered plan Friaco last year, flat-rate Internet...
[June 18, 2001, 15:54]
Freeserve Faces Future Without Dixons
News At the same time, the "free" business model, which revolutionised the British Net-access business when Freeserve popularised it last year, is being threatened by broadband and the imminent arrival of unmetered access, and alternative plans could...
[May 9, 2000, 14:23]
Unmetered Access To Shake Up Free ISPs
News The spokeswoman challenged BT's tariff, claiming it was not as good as the free Net time Freeserve offers. Freeserve users can earn up to 10 hours free Internet time per month by dialling 162 before voice calls.
[December 8, 1999, 10:58]
Freeserve Ads 'misleading', Says ASA
News The exact wording of the Freeserve advertising said: "With Freeserve AnyTime you'll have the freedom to go on to the Internet any time of day and night for as long as you like. UK ISP Freeserve has been ordered by the Advertising Standards...
[September 11, 2002, 10:34]
Freeserve Riding High In New Millennium
News While Freeserve claims that time spent online has grown by 14 percent, Jones is sceptical. The UK's first free service provider, Freeserve (quote: FRE) is riding high according to financial results announced Thursday.
[January 6, 2000, 11:38]
Exclusive: Freeserve Unmetered Announcement Tuesday
News The UK's largest ISP, Freeserve, will announce on Tuesday plans to tackle the recent spate of unmetered access deals that have seen its share price plummet. According to sources, Freeserve will reveal a "highly competitive" unmetered deal this...
[March 14, 2000, 6:00]
World Online Goes Head To Head With Freeserve
News The UK's leading ISP Freeserve is in for fresh competition as a new Dutch contender steps up with a stark warning: we're after your subscribers. World Online's UK CEO Laurence Alexander issued a warning to Freeserve Monday.
[January 24, 2000, 16:18]
Freeserve Won't Let Broadband Complaint Die
News However, this is the first time Oftel has actually shared its in-depth methodology with Freeserve," the Freeserve spokeswoman said. The fight between Freeserve and the UK's telecoms regulators over BT's allegedly predatory pricing is set to enter...
[December 22, 2003, 12:30]
2000 Roundup: Broadband Comes To Britain - Eventually
News Rumours began circulating that Freeserve wanted to stream live premiership matches over the Net as part of its broadband service. In March the first rumblings of discontent toward BT's ADSL plans emerged as Freeserve boss John Pluthero described...
[January 2, 2001, 6:12]
Freeserve Defiant After Dixons Chooses AOL
News We will continue to maximise this time with Dixons, but at the same time we will further build on new opportunities for customer acquisition through alternative means," said Freeserve chief executive Eric Abensur in a statement.
[September 1, 2003, 9:40]
Freeserve's E-commerce Revenues Jump
News Starting in May, Freeserve is to offer unmetered access at off-peak times for £6.99 per month; customers who use Freeserve partner Energis will get unmetered access any time, as long as they spend more than £10 per month on voice calls.
[March 16, 2000, 10:01]
AOL Offers Cheap PCs, Attacks Dixons
News According to a report in the Times newspaper he described the retail giant -- which has an 80 percent share in rival free ISP Freeserve -- as a "dominating retail force". He also thinks Freeserve may hit back.
[November 26, 1999, 17:03]
Freeserve Ejected From FTSE 100
News UK Internet service provider Freeserve (quote: FRE) is no longer one of the UK's top 100 companies and will be kicked out of the FTSE 100 index Monday, the victim of sliding tech share prices. Freeserve and other tech companies will move down to...
[October 20, 2000, 8:00]
BTopenworld Drops Broadband Activation Charge
News BTopenworld's price point of £29.99 is the same as that announced by Freeserve yesterday. Freeserve, however, hasn't revealed how much it will charge for its ADSL modem. We are in negotiation on the price point for our modem pack," a Freeserve...
[February 27, 2002, 12:47]
FTSE Ousts Freeserve From Top Index
News UK Internet service provider Freeserve (quote: FRE) is no longer one of the UK's top 100 companies and will be kicked out of the FTSE 100 index Monday, the victim of sliding tech share prices. The move will not come as a great surprise: Freeserve's...
[October 20, 2000, 12:30]
BT Aims To Dominate With No-frills Broadband
News At £27 per month, BT Broadband will be £3 per month cheaper than BTopenworld and Freeserve's broadband products, and £8 cheaper than AOL's. BT Retail, like other ISPs such as Freeserve, AOL and BTopenworld, will buy broadband connections from BT...
[June 14, 2002, 16:46]
