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BT cuts rural broadband fees
Talkback I currently use BT broadband sattelite which as an exorbitant installation fee of £900 and double the monthly fee of land line ADSL. There are other providers who charge less for installation and a higher monthly fee.
[January 5, 2004, 11:06]
breathe.net's free service goes live
News Despite a huge number of announcements about free services, breathe is only the second ISP to actually go live with a no-monthly-fee service. The unlimited-access packages are a response to traditional ISP services in Britain, which require users...
[April 4, 2000, 16:22]
Freeserve loses two founders
News Ajaz Ahmed and Rob Wilmot were two of the original four founders who set up the ISP which transformed the industry by scrapping the monthly subscription fee. In the UK Freeserve has moved from a per minute access model to a monthly subscription fee...
[April 30, 2001, 16:16]
BT broadband price cut 'unlikely' to benefit consumers
News According to an insider familiar with the situation, BT Wholesale is poised to cut its monthly ADSL rental fee from £14.75 to around £13. Even if they do cut the monthly rental fee to £13, other price changes mean that BT have effectively given...
[April 2, 2003, 18:07]
BT launches unmetered voice calls
News It now plans to extend this service to voice calls offering unlimited local calls for a fixed monthly fee. As many local off peak calls for a one off monthly fee All off-peak voice and Internet calls for a fixed monthly fee.
[October 19, 2000, 16:23]
BT's new Net tariff gets the thumbs down
News It has been widely misinterpreted in the national press as offering users eight hours per day for a monthly fee of around £10. He predicts the average monthly fee will be around £15 to £20. So will FreeCheck be offering customers unlimited access...
[November 10, 1999, 11:45]
Yahoo! video service goes live
News The service will carry a monthly fee of $9.95, or about £6.50, or a higher charge of $16.95 for a sports package. That service has garnered 900,000 subscribers who are willing to pay a monthly fee of $9.95.
[March 17, 2003, 7:31]
Could "Fremium" social media evolve into a pay once unlimited access model?
Blog Comment Virgin media UK have more or less ventured into this territory already by rounding there basic home service packages into one monthly lump sum fee, unfortunately this translates into customers having to pay a 2nd time for supposedly free TV...
[July 8, 2009, 9:42]
AOL UK unmetered package 'imminent'
News Companies such as AltaVista, ntl and a myriad of others recently began offering Internet service for a fixed monthly fee despite the fact that telephone connection charges are still charged on a per-minute basis.
[June 27, 2000, 12:51]
High prices stifle UK Internet use
News They are particularly surprising given that the UK is the only country to offer Friaco-based services, which give users as much Internet time as they want for a fixed monthly fee. There are a lot of bundled packages where you get a certain number...
[March 28, 2001, 14:47]
Web 'landlord' proves there's money in renting
News He wouldn't disclose the terms, but did say his leasing model so far has garnered more than a million dollars, and this agreement is worth substantially more than that -- a sum paid in the form of a monthly fee plus a percentage of revenues.
[August 13, 2001, 12:02]
DSL will threaten telcos, driven by porn - Ovum
News Businesses that previously paid up to £1,500 per month for high bandwidth will be able to access DSL for around £150 and individual users will have "always on" Internet for a fixed monthly fee. They will be able to stay free for narrowband but they...
[November 3, 1999, 16:58]
No price cut planned for BT Broadband
News Some ISPs have claimed that this will not actually allow them to cut their prices as BT has also just ended a special offer that reduced the activation fee from £60 to £30 -- cancelling out the saving from the lower monthly rental.
[April 8, 2003, 17:03]
AT&T Navigator for iPhone
Downloads The monthly fee will appear on your AT&T wireless bill. To cancel the subscription and fee from within the application go to Tools & Extras > About and select Billing and Subscriptions. Note: Deleting the app from your iPhone does not stop the...
[September 12, 2009, 1:02]
Pay-as-you-go broadband service targets light users
News The company has yet to release any details on its plans for a business product, but Kelly said that it would use the same bandwidth-charging mechanism as this consumer product but would also probably have a set monthly fee.
[July 28, 2004, 12:25]
Virgin takes axe to broadband start-up cost
News Virgin.net is also continuing to waive the broadband activation fee, even though BT Wholesale's half-price offer on this £50 charge recently ended. At the beginning of 2003 we removed the activation fee altogether and we will now continue to offer...
[April 29, 2003, 10:35]
BT breaks £20 threshold for ADSL - with limits
Talkback If you look at it like this the full costs of Broadband is lets say 12x£27.99 with Modem and Connnectionn fee (£80) this calculates on a monthly basis as about £415.88/12=£34.65 most ISP's waiver the connection fee and modem price and therefore...
[March 2, 2004, 9:59]
Dial IM from your mobile
News Subscribers would likely pay a monthly fee for the service. Carriers like Genie are likely to charge an additional monthly fee for consumers to participate. British carrier Genie said the instant messenger used by its 5.8 million customers can now...
[November 14, 2001, 16:15]
Microsoft pushes pay-as-you-go computing
News In many cases, Microsoft has already worked with local governments and businesses to offer financing programs in which consumers pay a monthly fee for their PC. Although much of the effort behind FlexGo centres on prepaid, Microsoft is going to see...
[May 22, 2006, 16:25]
Investors worried about free AOL use
News If AOL's bounty fee equals the PC maker's monthly payments, then the payments cancel each other out. When someone signs up for the AOL deal, AOL pays the PC maker a bounty fee and the PC maker pays AOL a monthly fee up to the amount of an AOL...
[March 14, 2002, 16:02]
