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Freeserve to offer personalised ads
News In conjunction with iWeb, the Internet messaging firm, Freeserve has been trialling a system called iNotes among a thousand Freeserve customers. According to Freeserve, 88 percent of users found the service valuable and unobtrusive.
[November 22, 1999, 16:34]
Freeserve denies one of top brass is leaving
News Freeserve denies that any of its executives are about to resign, describing the suggestion as "nonsense". Last month its chief operating officer Frank Keeling quit following Freeserve's acquisition by French ISP Wanadoo.
[April 26, 2001, 17:10]
Freeserve makes e-commerce gains
News Freeserve this week announced it is, for the first time, making more cash from e-commerce and advertising than from telephone-call revenues. Money from advertising and e-commerce made up 52 percent of Freeserve's revenue.
[September 29, 1999, 16:36]
Freeserve in dark over iToaster deal
News An exasperated Freeserve spokesperson pleaded total ignorance of any talks or a potential arrangement with Microworkz. She said: "There has been a lot of speculation in the papers over the past week and I have spent the whole time telling people it...
[July 23, 1999, 14:30]
Freeserve signs Tribal Voice for Instant Messaging
News Freeserve said Tuesday it would work with Tribal Voice to offer its own branded instant messaging application to its 1.32 million users. The Freeserve Communicator service will use Tribal Voice's PowWow technology, which is also used by AT&T's...
[September 7, 1999, 13:20]
Freeserve boss quits following restructuring
News Freeserve chief operating officer Frank Keeling has quit following the acquisition of the ISP by French ISP Wanadoo. The takeover last December leaves no room for Keeling, who handled the day-to-day running of Freeserve's business.
[March 16, 2001, 10:20]
Freeserve posts £17.5m loss, shares drop
News Freeserve's (quote: FRE) full-year results, announced Monday, delivered no big surprises -- certainly nothing earth-shaking enough to distract attention from the big news over the weekend, that merger talks with T-Online had fallen apart.
[June 26, 2000, 16:35]
Freeserve gets into insurance
News Not to be outdone by lively little red phones offering insurance online, Freeserve is teaming up with GlobalNet UK and Cox Insurance to launch an online insurance shop, it was announced Monday. The deal is the latest in a package of financial...
[September 20, 1999, 11:47]
Freeserve targets AOL and BT
News Freeserve customers will be able to sign up for the Internet service provider's new unmetered access package from Wednesday, the ISP has announced. Freeserve AnyTime allows for 24-hour access at a flat rate of £12.99 a month, undercutting AOL's...
[January 24, 2001, 13:44]
Freeserve to trial ADSL services
News Ignoring, for now, the prohibitive cost of ADSL Net access for consumers, Freeserve announced Monday that it is to trial ADSL services beginning 22 November. Freeserve was unable to give any further details, including pricing, because it is in its...
[September 20, 1999, 12:13]
Freeserve doing it all for charity
News This week ITV announced that Freeserve has signed up as a major partner in its millennium Year of Promise campaign. Freeserve will be hosting the Web site for the campaign and will manage the database where every promise will be entered and made...
[September 23, 1999, 11:22]
Freeserve founder pushes private browsing
News The founder of Freeserve has unveiled his latest venture — a Web-browsing tool that claims to preserve the privacy of its users. Ahmed founded the Freeserve ISP in the late 1990s. Browzar, as Ajaz Ahmed's brainchild is called, is a free application...
[August 31, 2006, 13:25]
Freeserve faces future without Dixons
News Electrical retailer Dixons could be set to finish off its involvement in the success story of Internet service provider Freeserve in the coming weeks by selling its majority stake. Such a sale -- which could see Freeserve joined to Germany's T...
[May 9, 2000, 14:23]
Freeserve shares rocket on T-Online news
News Top UK Internet service provider Freeserve (quote: FRE) gained 25 percent in value in early trading Tuesday in the wake of reports that Germany's T-Online will make a £6.5bn bid for the company. Electrical retailer Dixons (quote: DXNS) put...
[May 30, 2000, 9:24]
Freeserve's broadband complaint bites the dust
Talkback Freeserve is owned by Wanadoo, as subsidiary of France Telecom. What is the situation re broadband pricing to its competitors in its own country?
[December 22, 2003, 13:17]
Freeserve to bar heavy users
News British Internet service provider Freeserve (quote: FRE) is planning to kick off users who abuse the "unlimited" aspect of Freeserve Unlimited, one of the ISP's subscription packages for heavy users. She explains a small number -- less than one...
[October 5, 2000, 12:39]
Freeserve founders switch to VoIP venture
News The founders of ISP Freeserve -- now known as Wanadoo and owned by France Telecom -- have accepted the top spots at voice over IP (VoIP) company Callserve Communications. Freeserve co-founder Ajaz Ahmed will take the role of chief executive and...
[September 23, 2004, 10:25]
Freeserve won't let broadband complaint die
Talkback Suggest Freeserve go home and moan about French Telecom. I'm sure the air traffic controllers and port workers would come out on strike in their support. Des Saxby.
[December 23, 2003, 23:22]
Freeserve cuts broadband price
News Freeserve is upping the odds in its battle with rival Internet Service Provider BTopenworld by cutting the start-up cost of its self-installation broadband service. Freeserve's broadband customers will then be charged £29.99 (inc.
[April 16, 2002, 10:27]
Freeserve demands action on e-commerce VAT directive
News UK Internet service provider Freeserve insisted on Wednesday that the UK government must move swiftly to implement a European directive that would see non-EU companies that sell Internet services forced to pay VAT.
[December 19, 2001, 13:02]
