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News Schmooze: No-frills Broadband Draws ISP Ire
News The centrepiece of this plan seems to be a "no-frills" broadband offering coming up in a few weeks, which according to BT means you no longer have to have one of those pesky ISPs. BT unveiled an overview of its plans for the next three years...
[April 12, 2002, 16:57]
BT Cuts Start-up Cost Of No-frills Broadband
News Customers who sign up for BT's "no-frills" broadband package in the next four weeks will save £30 in start-up costs. The telco announced this week that any customer subscribing to BT Broadband before 20 September will only have to pay half the...
[August 21, 2002, 13:08]
BSkyB To Sell Discounted No-frills Broadband
News The satellite broadcaster announced on Wednesday that it had signed a deal that allows it to sell BT Retail's no-frills broadband package to its subscriber base. Precise details of the tie-up are not yet available, but it appears that Sky's...
[July 31, 2002, 12:51]
AOL Challenges BT's 'no-frills' Broadband
News This price point puts AOL's new broadband offering almost in line with BT's "no-frills" package, called BT Broadband. BT Broadband, the "no-frills" product offered by BT Retail, only provides a basic high-speed connection.
[October 8, 2002, 13:42]
More Partners For BT's No-frills Broadband
News BT's push to dominate the UK's consumer broadband market with a 'no-frills' product hit another landmark on Monday when it announced that another 30 Web sites have signed up as content partners. This latest raft of content providers takes to 60 the...
[August 5, 2002, 13:22]
BT Aims To Dominate With No-frills Broadband
News BT Retail believes it can capture half of the UK's consumer broadband market with its new "no-frills" high-speed Internet access product, and kick-start the broadband applications sector in the process.
[June 14, 2002, 16:46]
BT Insists It Will Hit No-frills Broadband Target
News BT said on Friday it was confident that it will have sold at least 500,000 subscriptions to its no-frills broadband package by this summer, despite speculation that the target may be too ambitious to be achieved.
[February 14, 2003, 14:08]
BT Unveils No-frills Budget Broadband
News BT announced on Wednesday morning that its cut-price broadband product will cost £27 per month -- more expensive than some observers had expected. The service, which will be called BT Broadband, will give users a high-speed Web connection, but will...
[April 24, 2002, 8:48]
AOL Challenges BT's 'no-frills' Broadband
Talkback At the moment I have Telefonica online Broadband, but the service is in Spanish. Is there a way for me to use AOL to replace Telefonica Broadband? I live in Tenerife, Canary Islands. I am very interested in AOL but my telephone line is with...
[March 2, 2004, 9:43]
AOL Challenges BT's 'no-frills' Broadband
Talkback When I first got AOL they didn't even inform me that it had an 12 months contract. The customer service is very poor, as when I had many problems with AOL I had to ring them and I was put on hold for an hour.
[July 6, 2006, 11:59]
Free Broadband Modems For Sky Subscribers
News Sky Digital customers who sign up for BT's "no-frills" broadband package will get their Alcatel "Green Frog" DSL modem for free, under an agreement announced on Thursday. BT and Sky announced back in July that they were teaming up to offer BT...
[October 17, 2002, 11:34]
BT Shrugs Off Freeserve Broadband Complaints
News BT insiders have slammed Freeserve's latest protest about BT's "no-frills" broadband product, insisting that the objection is not justified. With more than 70 percent of the residential telephony market, BT Retail is able to exploit huge...
[October 25, 2002, 12:30]
BT Reassures City But Scares ISPs
News While investors have reacted quite calmly to the details of BT's new three-year strategy plan, the telco's plans for a "no-frills" broadband product have worried some members of the ISP community. BT has denied that the "no frills" product poses a...
[April 9, 2002, 14:45]
Freeserve Anger Over BT's Broadband Plans
News Freeserve has again accused BT of acting in an unfair manner over broadband, and called on Oftel, the government and the Office of Fair Trading to consider taking action over BT Retail's new "no-frills" broadband product.
[September 20, 2002, 12:46]
BT To Sell Cut-price Broadband Product
News BT Retail looks set to undercut the UK's broadband Internet Service Providers by selling a "no-frills" product that will give users a fast connection to the Web without the additional services and support often provided by ISPs.
[April 8, 2002, 13:18]
ISPs Give Thumbs-up To BT Ad Bonanza
News Both PlusNet and Thus have welcomed the news that BT will launch a £10m advertising campaign next week that will aim to boost broadband awareness, followed by a £23m marketing blitz for the "no-frills" broadband product recently launched by BT...
[September 19, 2002, 16:24]
Microsoft And BT Form Broadband Alliance
News This deal comes at a time when BT Retail is spending millions of pounds promoting its controversial "no-frills" broadband package -- called BT Broadband -- which does not include services such as email, Web hosting or broadband content.
[November 6, 2002, 11:56]
Microsoft Deal May Give BT Edge Over Broadband Rivals
News BT's alliance with Microsoft will help the telco to achieve market domination with its "no-frills" broadband product, an industry expert has predicted. It will see BT and Microsoft working together on a range of broadband applications to complement...
[November 8, 2002, 11:50]
No Price Cut Planned For BT Broadband
News BT Broadband, the "no-frills" high-speed Internet access package sold by BT Retail, will not be dropping in price in response to last week's ADSL price cuts. We are not cutting the price of BT Broadband at the moment because that we feel it is good...
[April 8, 2003, 17:03]
BT Retail Swallows Openworld, But Rules Out Full Merger
News However, rival ISPs have already criticised the move, suggesting that it is proof that BT Broadband -- BT Retail's "no-frills" product -- is flawed. He told ZDNet UK News it is part of BT's drive to put broadband at the heart of its operations, and...
[December 9, 2002, 15:06]
