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Web Pay-Per-View Service Claims A UK First
News Charges -- 50p per minute for results and tips -- will be registered onto quarterly phone bills rather than via credit cards. Announced Tuesday visitors to the Alex Gorrie Nothern Racing site will be able receive and pay for racing information online.
[July 15, 1999, 11:40]
BT Crawls Towards 'unmetered Access'
News From December, BT will alter the way it charges ISPs for Internet calls, removing the pay per minute tariff and replacing it with an unmetered one. This is the first deal BT has done without pay per minute tariffs and CUT regard this as the beginning.
[November 9, 1999, 16:11]
Jane Wakefield: The Day The Internet Went Free
News Waving an Internet pistol filled with free bullets, it woke the sleepy ISPs out of their pay-per-minute reverie to fire the biggest blast at access since Freeserve took away subscription fees. AltaVista will pay it per-minute for the calls its...
[March 7, 2000, 16:11]
Macromedia Starts The Meter On Web Conferencing
News In addition to existing plans that allow businesses to pay for the service by annual subscription and per-seat licensing, Macromedia will now offer an a la carte service for 32 cents per minute. Macromedia is set to announce a new pay-as-you-go...
[September 7, 2004, 8:45]
O2 Extends Voice Roaming Price Cuts
News While the 35p per minute incoming/outgoing tariff still exists for those not paying a monthly premium, customers using the new My Europe Extra tariff will now pay £5 per month to get incoming calls free and outgoing calls at 25p per minute.
[February 12, 2007, 8:09]
O2 To Start Charging For 0845 Calls
News However, from the end of September, O2 will charge for such calls separately from users' bundles, at a rate of 20p per minute for pay monthly users and 25p per minute for pre-pay users. O2 is to start charging for calls to non-geographic numbers...
[August 30, 2007, 10:09]
Will BT Voice Calls Go Unmetered?
News The government claims high access costs in the UK are stifling e-trade, and pressure is mounting on BT -- which controls 85 percent of the domestic market -- to turn off the pay-per-minute meter. According to the Durlacher survey, Net use would...
[February 28, 2000, 11:20]
Oftel Plans Changes To Unmetered Net Access
News Currently they must pay in advance, which some in the industry see as unfair because ISPs pay in arrears for metered capacity -- where customers pay per minute for Internet access. Before Friaco was introduced, ISPs that launched an unmetered...
[January 28, 2002, 10:45]
Pay-as-you-go 24Mbps Broadband Announced
News Other ISPs have already opted to offer a pay-as-you-go option, harking back to the per-minute rates available when most Internet access was over dial-up. BT has trialled such a service, while others, including Bulldog, have rolled out per-minute...
[January 5, 2006, 11:05]
Apple's MPEG-4 Snub May Halt QuickTime
News The proposal also suggests charging a per-minute rate, with no cap. Apple would not say whether it might be willing to pay more to spare the content distributors from having to pay a per-stream fee. The terms, set by MPEG LA on 31 January, have...
[February 13, 2002, 12:03]
BT To Close BTclick And Move Customers
News Three different services are available through BTinternet, including a pay-as-you-go service with a daytime rate of 2p per minute, compared to a rate of 4p per minute for BTclick. For £9.99 per month, SurfTime offers up to 504 hours of free...
[September 18, 2000, 14:57]
Free Internet -- What You Actually Get, A ZDNet Guide
News Critics claim the service penalises late-night surfers by cutting off the unmetered clock at midnight and turning all remaining onliners back into the rags of pay per minute. Dialling an 0845 number for two weeks and paying at the pay per minute...
[March 8, 2000, 11:22]
O2 Undercuts Rivals On Roaming Fees
News Contract customers who do not opt into the leisure tariff will still pay between 58p and 85p per minute when making or receiving calls abroad, and pre-pay customers will still pay between 69p and £1.49 per minute.
[May 12, 2006, 13:45]
BT Kicks Off Phone Price War
News Under Option 1, called the 6p hour plan, customers will pay 6p for the first hour for all evening and weekend calls and 3p per minute for daytime weekday calls, on top of a £11.50 monthly rental fee. Currently, BT Together customers pay 3p per...
[April 2, 2003, 12:26]
Pre-paying Brits Won't Flock To 3G
News A pay-as-you-go option is also available, where video calls cost 50p per minute, voice calls to other 3 users cost 5p per minute, and voice calls to other networks cost 10p per minute. Its handsets cost around £400, with a contract costing £59.99...
[April 1, 2003, 13:34]
BT Lures Consumers With Free Wi-Fi
News Additionally, BT has introduced a new pay-as-you-go Openzone subscription aimed at occasional Wi-Fi users who want to be billed per minute. The new service, which does not require a contract or subscription, will cost 20 pence per minute.
[January 5, 2004, 13:55]
Virgin Looks To Cash In With SMS Gaming
News For voice calls, the company operates a simple tariff of 15 pence per minute for the first five minutes of calls in one day, with every additional minute costing five pence. Virgin is already a big fan of Sendo's earlier handset, the S200, which...
[February 21, 2002, 14:07]
Pay-as-you-surf WAP Arrives, Cellnet Steals A First
News But while users will save on the cost of a PC, surfing the Net using a mobile does not come cheap: all WAP calls will be charged at a flat rate of 10p per minute, with voice calls costing 30p per minute peak and 5p per minute off-peak.
[April 3, 2000, 16:03]
Branson Steps Into Mobile Phone Market
News Virgin Mobile introduces a new pay structure with no monthly line rental and offers customers a choice of either a pre-pay or post-pay billing option. He claimed Virgin Mobile could save UK mobile phone users over £1.6bn a year with the...
[November 11, 1999, 12:46]
Startup Spotlight: Yac.com
News The calls cost 32 pence per minute at peak rate, and twenty pence a minute off peak. International redirection charges had plummeted -- it is now possible to call the United States for two pence per minute wholesale price.
[April 6, 2000, 15:37]
