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LineOne's future on the line
News LineOne may face the auction block as parent companies United News and Media and BT (quote: BT) look to raise cash, according to industry sources. BT has been rumoured to be considering the sale of LineOne for months, after it paid out millions of...
[November 27, 2000, 15:59]
LineOne clocks up 400,000 users
News LineOne, BT's free ISP, announced Tuesday it has clocked up 400,000 subscribers making it Britain's sixth biggest ISP, according to research firm Dataquest. LineOne managing director Ajay Chowdhury is delighted by the figures and expects even more...
[August 24, 1999, 15:58]
LineOne goes free(ish)
News The latest ISP to offer unmetered access is LineOne, which on Friday announced that it would be joining the party on 31 March. Subscribers will have to commit to spending £5 a month on voice calls, register with telecomms company Quip and purchase...
[March 10, 2000, 14:47]
LineOne refresh is really personal
News BT/News International's LineOne online service is being fully revamped with an emphasis on personalisation. The UI will be anchored by the Springboard toolbar at the bottom of the site and will play host to LineOne's "about 12" current advertisers.
[August 28, 1997, 15:15]
LineOne fails, what future for unmetered?
News In an embarrassing U-turn, high profile ISP LineOne Monday declares itself unable "financially or commercially" to sustain its unmetered Internet service. It is widely believed that users' abuse -- subscribers staying connected to the service 24...
[July 17, 2000, 12:09]
LineOne dumps unmetered access
News LineOne, the ISP part-owned by British Telecommunications (quote: BT) made a dramatic U-turn this weekend by abandoning its unmetered Internet service, leaving thousands of disappointed users. A spokeswoman for LineOne confirms the service has been...
[July 17, 2000, 9:19]
News Burst: LineOne to go toll free?
News Chowdhury is determined LineOne will become a major UK portal and claimed the ISP hopes to dominate the UK e-commerce market. As the rush to the free ISP model continues apace, Chowdhury predicts Internet pricing is in for a radical shake-up, with...
[May 27, 1999, 15:02]
LineOne plans September revamp
News Intensively promoted in the Murdoch press, LineOne has proven a reasonable success since its April launch, collecting about 15,000 subscribers. The new version will offer a new user interface, personalisation features and Macintosh client support...
[August 20, 1997, 10:03]
Outrage from LineOne customers over scrapped service
News LineOne's decision to scrap its unmetered service has led to outrage from customers who feel let down by the ISP. The unmetered service launched by LineOne at the end of March was cancelled Monday as the ISP decided it was "financially unsustainable".
[July 18, 2000, 7:01]
LineOne and Psion go online
News The partnership promises to bring over 1.8 million pages of content -- including news, travel, business, sports and entertainment information -- direct to users of the popular PDA. Users will be able to get access to Planet.Psion via their Psion...
[September 7, 1999, 9:32]
Yahoo and BT in Click! pact
News Telecoms behemoth BT has spurned its own portal LineOne and signed a pact with Yahoo! BT's partnership with Yahoo shows how unsuccessful its LineOne venture has turned out to be, according to Yasskin.
[November 5, 1998, 16:35]
Climb aboard the free ISP bandwagon!
News And although BT played down speculation about LineOne going the free ISP route, a source close to the company said "it's in the pipeline". And while the telecoms giant would not confirm rumours about LineOne's £9.99 monthly charge being scrapped, a...
[February 9, 1999, 16:08]
Unmetered access model crumbles
News Both LineOne and CallNet have now ditched their unmetered offerings and other ISPs, including ntl, AltaVista and redhotant have been accused of false advertising. ISPA has received complaints about a variety of ISPs and is currently considering...
[August 8, 2000, 16:06]
A Year Ago: Climb aboard the free ISP bandwagon!
News And although BT played down speculation about LineOne going the free ISP route, a source close to the company said "it's in the pipeline". And while the telecoms giant would not confirm rumours about LineOne's £9.99 monthly charge being scrapped, a...
[February 9, 2000, 6:02]
AOL releases figures, Freeserve still on top
News Ajay Chowdhury, managing director of ISP LineOne, thinks there is another reason for AOL's reticence. If it floats it may go free," predicts LineOne's Chowdhury. AOL claimed Friday it has 1.2 million active users -- meaning growth is up but the...
[February 7, 2000, 11:24]
Guy Kewney's Diary
News You get into LineOne, but you also get access to the Internet, for £16 odd per month; about £3.00 of that is what you pay for LineOne. LineOne is online, at last. Quite a lot of it is working; but up till today, you needed a LineOne dialup account...
[March 22, 1997, 7:00]
Tiscali buys Liberty Surf
News Tiscali recently purchased Dutch ISP World Online, and is considered a potential buyer for LineOne, put up for sale by British Telecom and United News & Media. Italy's Tiscali bought French Internet service provider Liberty Surf Monday in a cash...
[January 8, 2001, 11:15]
BT forms Internet division
News BT e-Business will become the umbrella organisation for BT Internet, BTClick and BT's share of free ISP LineOne and will be headed up by Ben Andradi, who was previously in charge of Internet services at IBM.
[November 16, 1999, 14:31]
One million Telewest users blacklisted
Talkback However on a Lineone account, I am inundated, mostly originating from AOL,BT or Hotmail, previously so on a BT account. How do we know if we, as a Blueyonder customer, have been blacklisted, or have all Blueyonder customers been blaclisted since IP...
[May 11, 2005, 12:12]
2000 Roundup: A Year of unmetered access?
News Ntl, Virgin, Freeserve and LineOne all promised to join the unmetered party. LineOne became the first high profile ISP to admit it couldn't sustain unmetered using the SurfTime model. It was hoped that the New Year would not just be the beginning...
[December 23, 2000, 6:17]
