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Friaco Not To Blame For Broadband Fiasco, Says AOL
News Both he and his colleague Bruce Stanford, BT Wholesale's director of broadband, had implied that the Friaco (Flat-rate Internet access call origination) flat-rate access service was partly to blame for the low penetration of broadband into Britain.
[December 5, 2001, 9:43]
ISPs Clash In Friaco Row
News A row broke out over the weekend in the ISP scene over the reliability of Friaco -- the tariff that makes unmetered Internet access commercially viable. St Friaco, or Single tandem Flat-rate Internet access call origination, makes it possible for...
[November 12, 2001, 14:14]
Freeserve Goes Head To Head With AOL Over Unmetered
News Freeserve (quote: FRE) is reopening the old rivalry with AOL Friday as it launches a new unmetered service based on the Friaco agreement. Friaco (Flat Rate Internet Access Call Origination) is generally regarded as a more robust and financially...
[December 1, 2000, 15:06]
Tiny Offers Improved Unmetered Service
News Tiny Online, the ISP arm of PC manufacturer Tiny, is to offer an unmetered service based on Friaco. Friaco (Flat Rate Internet Access Call Origination) is the solution forced on BT by Oftel and the industry following the unpopularity of SurfTime.
[March 13, 2001, 15:41]
Exclusive: BT Forced To Offer Better Unmetered Solution For ISPs
News ZDNet UK News has learned that BT (quote: BT) has been forced to rewrite its Friaco unmetered offering following intense negotiations with WorldCom, the network carrier that complained about BT following the announcement of SurfTime.
[July 19, 2000, 15:31]
Eye2Eye: Oftel's Edmonds On Unmetered
News In the middle of November Oftel announced it would enhance even further the Friaco agreement which most operators agree is the only way for UK operators to get a fair deal on unmetered. Friaco II takes connectivity deeper into the network and was...
[November 28, 2000, 10:23]
AltaVista Rejects Unmetered, Industry Reacts
News The Consumers' Association Tuesday calls on ISPs to take their share of the blame for the unmetered fiasco while Oftel reveals that Friaco -- believed by industry to be the solution to the problem -- will not be available until autumn at the...
[August 22, 2000, 12:34]
Powernet Lays Off Staff With Spam
News BT's long-awaited roll out of Friaco -- its wholesale flat-rate access service -- has put pressure on network providers such as Powernet, which will no longer be needed now that ISPs can buy flat-rate access from the local exchange from BT.
[October 2, 2000, 15:08]
Oftel Plans Changes To Unmetered Net Access
News The telecoms watchdog believes that a number of adjustments should be made to the way that BT provides flat rate Internet access call origination (Friaco) -- the wholesale product that allows ISPs to give their customers Internet access for a...
[January 28, 2002, 10:45]
BT To Fight Internet Access Price Cuts
News Oftel announced on Tuesday morning that it is proposing a 7 percent cut in the cost of what is called DLE Friaco. Oftel initially decided the cost of DLE Friaco in mid-2000, when the product first launched.
[February 20, 2002, 12:24]
Breathe To Launch Unmetered Offer
News Chief executive Shaun Gardener said the new service would be based on British Telecommunications' (quote: BT) Friaco (Flat Rate Internet Access Call Origination) package. In line with other major players in the market, Breathe intends to launch an...
[February 26, 2001, 13:13]
BT Offers Unmetered Access, But Only In Towns
News AltaVista and other ISPs struggling to maintain unmetered services under BT's current charging regimes have been screaming out for Friaco -- a wholesale unmetered product that would allow rival telcos to lease bandwidth from the company.
[August 23, 2000, 14:55]
New Unmetered Price War On The Way - Analysts
News Now AOL says Friaco is available, opening the floodgates to a new generation of flat rate ISP packages that, theoretically, will be founded on a sustainable business model. Now that Friaco is available, other companies will soon offer their own...
[September 20, 2000, 14:51]
Internet Price Cuts May Never Reach Consumers
News These products, known as FRIACO (Flat Rate Internet Access Call Origination), are used by ISPs to provide customers with always-on narrowband Internet access. As ZDNet UK reported, Oftel had said in February that it was planning to force a cut in...
[July 19, 2002, 11:13]
Oftel Dictated To By BT Says ISPA
News In May the watchdog compelled BT to introduce a wholesale unmetered tariff -- known as Friaco (Flat Rate Internet Access Call Origination). Industry found the first Friaco unsuitable so we are moving to get a better version of it," says an Oftel...
[August 25, 2000, 14:42]
AOL Delivers Unmetered Nationwide
News ISPs responded with vociferous complaints that the SurfTime deal was unworkable and Oftel finally forced BT to roll out Friaco in what was hailed as an historic shift in the telecoms landscape. Friaco has two major advantages for ISPs.
[November 8, 2000, 11:54]
Breathe Closes Unmetered Scheme
News In an email sent to the 50,000 users of "breathe freely", the ISP blamed the introduction of BT's Friaco for the end of its unmetered scheme. Developments in the wider unmetered access market indicate that the only sustainable model for such...
[December 11, 2000, 9:06]
Freeserve Targets AOL And BT
News AnyTime is based on Friaco (Flat Rate Internet Access Call Origination), a wholesale unmetered package from BT that is only now becoming available. AOL's flat-rate service is also based on Friaco. A spokesman said once Friaco is widely used by ISPs...
[January 24, 2001, 13:44]
Supanet Offers Unmetered Service
News Supanet is the latest in a host of ISPs to take advantage of Friaco (Flat Rate Internet Access Call Origination), the wholesale unmetered product Oftel forced BT to roll out last summer after complaints that its previous product, SurfTime, was...
[April 25, 2001, 16:52]
World Online Wavers On Unmetered
News In a letter sent to World Online customers this week the telco says, "In light of the delays in the availability of FRIACO, World Online is currently having to review its products and prices. FRIACO (Flat Rate Internet Access Origination) is the...
[September 8, 2000, 11:06]
