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Price rises for unmetered Internet access
News The price rises, which apply to AOL's Flat Rate tariff and BTopenworld's Anytime package, are due to come into effect at the beginning of May. Both ISPs defended the price rises by claiming that the money would be spent on maintaining and improving...
[April 2, 2002, 14:00]
Row heats up over BT broadband price rises
News Over 70 of these ISPs have banded together into a new organisation called the UK Internet Federation (UKIF) in an attempt to fight the price rises. Ian Fogg, European broadband analyst for Jupiter Research, said that this means that price rises for...
[August 12, 2004, 15:15]
Did Ofcom force BT's broadband price rises?
News BT has refused to comment on the suggestion that it had made these price rises now because it knew that Ofcom would soon force it to make them anyway. The price rises, reported on Tuesday, have been made to BT's IPStream Office and IPStream S range.
[August 5, 2004, 16:15]
SAP rejects user concerns over price rises
News Asked if he could accept that price rises were causing some unhappiness among users, Wohl said: "I wouldn't agree with that". SAP has rejected UK user concerns over imminent increases in the price of the company's support, saying it stands by the...
[July 29, 2008, 15:23]
Duopoly 'would mean price rises' - economist
News Microsoft excels at selling high volumes of low-price software and offering little customer service. By contrast, Oracle, SAP and PeopleSoft sell high-price software through a prolonged sales process that requires a lot of hand-holding.
[June 21, 2004, 9:15]
Semiconductor sales defy energy price rises
News According to the association, the cost of 1Gb of DRAM has dropped by 43 percent in the last year, and the price of 2Gb of NAND flash memory has fallen by 61 percent in the same period. Healthy PC and handset sales led to 5.4 percent year-on-year...
[August 5, 2008, 15:43]
Memory price rises set to continue
News Although many industry executives and analysts expect the pace of price increases to slow, they also don't expect the market to go into a tailspin like last year. Once considered too expensive, DDR began to drop in price last summer, making it more...
[March 13, 2002, 9:27]
SAP price hikes delayed
News The business software maker SAP has delayed price rises for its customers, after the timing of a user benchmarking scheme designed to set the level of the increase slipped. According to the original timetable, the first KPI benchmarks were set to...
[December 2, 2009, 12:08]
SAP users win deal over support price hikes
News SAP users have ordered the software company to meet a new set of criteria in order to justify the support price rises it proposed last year. When the price rises were originally proposed in July 2008, the SAP UK and Ireland user group was vocal in...
[May 1, 2009, 8:25]
BEA bears the brunt as Oracle hikes prices
News The company's core software has risen in price by around 15 to 20 percent in the US, and European users can expect local increases to reflect those rises. Overall, the recent price rises have been high, said Lock, adding that this is a regular...
[June 23, 2008, 17:10]
ISPs to meet Ofcom over BT broadband price hikes
News Several of ISPA's members are understood to be furious about the price rises, which affect BT's IPStream Office and S range. As previously reported, it is thought that BT has made these price rises in advance of an Ofcom ruling of unfair broadband...
[August 18, 2004, 17:55]
Bright future ahead for LCDs
News While last year saw price rises due to component shortages, 2004 is tipped to be a year of plunging prices. A lack of components led to steep rises in the price of LCD monitors in 2003. The LCD market is set for dramatic growth during the next few...
[March 30, 2004, 16:05]
Market mayhem: Tech stocks on a rollercoaster
News T-Online rises on debut - a little -- Europe's largest ISP rises above its list price - but only because that price was near the bottom of the range. Broker tip triples QXL share price -- What Internet bubble?
[April 7, 2000, 14:28]
Small ISPs 'face ruin' over BT price hikes
News ISPs will face major problems due to price rises that BT plans for its wholesale offerings. ISPA said on Friday that its members are concerned by a BT proposal to hike the price of its IPStream package by around 30 percent.
[August 27, 2004, 17:20]
BT may follow Freeserve with price hike
News Tim Johnson, analyst at research firm Ovum believes price rises across the board are inevitable. We don't regulate for what is an appropriate price for consumers, we regulate to make sure BT doesn't make more than it should," said an Oftel spokesman.
[May 17, 2001, 17:29]
TalkTalk attacks BT local-loop price hikes
News TalkTalk commissioned an economist, Dr Chris Doyle of Warwick Business School, to analyse BT's price rises. A spokesperson for TalkTalk told ZDNet UK on Monday that the company expected the price for each user connection to go up by between £2 and...
[March 9, 2009, 16:11]
BT hits ISPs with broadband price hikes
News BT's price rises in full: It is very likely that some or all of the price increases will be passed onto end users. BT has sprung a nasty surprise on British business by making dramatic and unexpected increases to the cost of some of its broadband...
[August 3, 2004, 14:35]
BT freed from retail price controls
News You would hope that commercial pressures would stop any rises kicking in that would not be justified, but you might see some increases in some areas with decreases in others," Tony Lock, European research director for the Sageza Group, told ZDNet...
[July 19, 2006, 13:45]
Five years ago: EC rule sends RAM prices up 30 per cent
News We're seeing price rises of between 25 per cent and 30 per cent," said Ian Boyle, group director of UK memory distributor Datrontech. Unless you can prove the RAM was manufactured outside Korea or Japan, or prove the goods were sold above the EC's...
[March 26, 2002, 6:01]
One Year Ago:EC rule sends RAM prices up 30 per cent
News "We're seeing price rises of between 25 per cent and 30 per cent," said Ian Boyle, group director of UK memory distributor Datrontech. Unless you can prove the RAM was manufactured outside Korea or Japan, or prove the goods were sold above the EC's...
[March 26, 1998, 6:00]
