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BT: SurfTime "could Die A Death"
News As SurfTime launches Thursday, BT (quote: BT) admits its flagship unmetered service could "die a death" following Oftel's decision Friday forcing it to simultaneously roll out an alternative. Today's launch of SurfTime sees BT having to roll out a...
[June 1, 2000, 7:47]
SurfTime Disappoints - Attracts Just Four ISPs
News Only four of Britain's estimated 400 or so ISPs will offer British Telecom's SurfTime when it goes live Thursday. SurfTime was intended as BT's (quote: BT) flagship unmetered service but suffered a near fatal setback last week when the...
[June 1, 2000, 9:05]
WorldCom Takes On BT, Offers Alternative Surftime
News MCI WorldCom is to roll out an alternative version of Surftime following a successful anti-competitive complaint against BT it is revealed Tuesday. In a complaint to Oftel WorldCom accuses BT of failing to offer a wholesale version of its unmetered...
[April 18, 2000, 15:36]
Forget BT's Surftime, Telewest Launches SurfUnlimited
News BT's Surftime is yet to get off the ground and -- at £35 a month for unlimited access -- has been heavily criticised for being too expensive. SurfUnlimited blows BT Surftime out of the water, according to moderator of the Campaign for Unmetered...
[February 14, 2000, 14:36]
Exclusive: BT Caves In To Criticism Of Surftime
News It looks as if British Telecom has caved in to industry and consumer criticism of its unlimited Net access service, Surftime. Speaking at the ISP conference, ISPCON, in London, BT Internet manager Simon Brooks claimed that prices for Surftime...
[February 15, 2000, 15:31]
Industry 'incensed' Over Surftime
News BT's Surftime has "incensed the entire ISP industry", Tim Pearson, chairman of ISPA (Internet Service Providers Association), told ZDNet Wednesday. Surftime, which was announced in December, met with a fairly lukewarm reaction, and on Monday, cable...
[February 16, 2000, 15:05]
Oftel: BT's Surftime Is Anti-competitive
News Oftel has told ZDNet that British Telecom is guilty of anti-competitive behaviour pointing the finger at its beleagured unmetered access service, Surftime. That complaint came from would-be Net champion MCI WorldCom, arguing that Surftime needs a...
[April 19, 2000, 12:36]
Surftime Is Scrapped, Surftime II Is Born
News BT has been forced by Oftel to scrap its unmetered Surftime service, and can no longer promise an unmetered Internet system by spring. Details are thin on its replacement -- called Surftime II. Since its inception in December Surftime has been...
[February 29, 2000, 15:09]
BT's Day Of Reckoning: Oftel Acts On SurfTime
News Telecoms watchdog Oftel on Friday issued a major blow to BT's SurfTime service, ordering the telco to offer a wholesale version to other operators. The watchdog bites in response to complaints from rival telco WorldCom, which claimed Surftime is...
[May 30, 2000, 10:08]
BT's SurfTime Is A Flop
News Despite spending an estimated £20m on its marketing campaign BT has attracted just 200,000 users to its SurfTime service, it emerges Wednesday. SurfTime is BT's flagship unmetered service which has been dogged by controversy since its announcement...
[August 24, 2000, 7:00]
BTopenworld Resets The Meter On Unmetered Web Access
News BTopenworld is to place new limits on the amount of time its Anytime and Surftime customers can spend online. Surftime users, who currently pay £6.99 per month for evening and weekend access, will be limited to 120 hours per month during those...
[September 30, 2002, 16:34]
Update: Oftel's Ruling To Bring 'second Wave' Of Price Cuts
News The Oftel ruling Friday that forces BT (quote: BT) to sell a wholesale version of its unmetered access package, SurfTime will spawn a second wave of cheap access deals according to experts Tuesday. Oftel's decision, in effect opens up the 'last...
[May 30, 2000, 12:15]
BT's Unmetered Promise Under Attack
News The UK's top two ISPs remain unimpressed by BT's reincarnated Surftime as the telco tells ZDNet that unmetered services will fail. As predicted by ZDNet News, BT has been forced to slash the cost of Surftime in response to cut-price deals from...
[March 9, 2000, 12:32]
Jane Wakefield: A Woolly Tale Of A Telco Mammoth
News If there is one word Peter Bonfield will not want inscribed on his grave it is SurfTime. Of all the blunders BT has been a party to, SurfTime has to be up there among the worst. BT's marketing director Angus Porter describes SurfTime as offering a...
[June 5, 2000, 11:01]
News Roundup: BT's Unmetered Net Access Plan
News Surftime, as the package is called, is only available to consumers via an ISP and for ISPs, many of whom currently rely on telephone charges for revenue, the benefits are not necessarily obvious . If they offer Surftime to users they will have to...
[December 8, 1999, 11:21]
Is There A Future For BT's Unmetered Plans?
News Confusion hung over BT's unmetered Internet service, Surftime, Thursday. BT claims Surftime is going through an approval process but the telecoms watchdog Oftel says it has yet to receive any notification from the telco.
[January 21, 2000, 11:18]
Totalise Turns Tables On Unmetered
News It also soundly criticises other unmetered services and the slow roll out of a viable wholesale alternative to SurfTime. Friaco is regarded as the first real step towards sensible unmetered access as operators finally stop paying BT per minute for...
[August 17, 2000, 7:02]
Industry Says Unmetered Access Too Expensive
News BT Surftime will offer unlimited Internet access for a £34.99 monthly fee. AOL is concerned that the Surftime offer will do little to encourage Internet use and may be anti-competitive. Industry leaders and lobbyists have responded angrily to BT's...
[December 7, 1999, 13:40]
BT Offers Unmetered Access - Finally
News BT Surftime, expected next spring after agreement with the telecoms watchdog Oftel, will offer residential and business users a range of tariffs for a single monthly fee. Under the Surftime deal, users can choose between five tariffs.
[December 7, 1999, 11:42]
Update: AOL Denies Unmetered -- But Soon
News AOL has been extremely vocal in its criticism of BT's Surftime, claiming the telco announced the pricing structure of its wholesale unmetered service before informing ISPs of the full cost. BT's Surftime does not give AOL the opportunity to roll...
[April 12, 2000, 15:41]
