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Campaign For Unmetered Telecommunications Dissolves
News The Campaign for Unmetered Telecommunications (CUT) has dissolved, stating that it has achieved its goal of catalysing the creation of "sustainable unmetered telecommunications in the United Kingdom at reasonable cost".
[June 18, 2001, 15:54]
Will Unmetered Access Come At The Cost Of Quality?
News A representative of the Campaign for Unmetered Telecommunications (CUT) suspects that a more cautious approach to unmetered Internet access could pay off in the long term. At first glance, Freeserve's unmetered offering, announced on Tuesday, may...
[March 15, 2000, 16:08]
Free Net Access: Industry Questions CallNet Scheme
News Even the Campaign for Unmetered Telecommunications has serious reservations about the service. BT could end up going to ministers and claiming that there is no problem about unmetered telecommunications anymore, when in fact the whole service will...
[October 28, 1999, 12:40]
Oftel Promises 'major' Review Of Line Charges
News A spokesman for the Campaign for Unmetered Telecommunications (CUT) summed up the feelings of many delegates. Michael Portillo, the newly-installed MP for Kensington and Chelsea added his view to the calls for unmetered Internet access.
[November 30, 1999, 9:32]
2000 Roundup: The Dot-com Bubble Pops
News It launched unmetered access in March, a business model that posed a direct threat to its original way of earning fees based on telephone charges. But in October Freeserve was having enough trouble maintaining unmetered that it threatened to bar...
[January 1, 2001, 6:16]
Unmetered Access Could Bring Network Problems
News Britain's national telecommunications provider, BT (quote: BT), can give no guarantee that its network will cope with the predicted increase in traffic following the arrival of unmetered Internet access next month.
[March 15, 2000, 15:20]
Pressure Mounts On BT Over Unmetered Access
News A day after e-Minister Patricia Hewitt met with members of the Campaign for Unmetered Telecommunications (CUT) and representatives from AOL to discuss Net charges Intel has, tentatively, thrown its weight behind the campaign.
[October 21, 1999, 16:20]
News Burst: Oftel Sets Unmetered Access Talks
News At a secret meeting with the regulator, members of AOL, CUT (Campaign for Unmetered Telecommunications), BT, Energis and Freeserve will give views on the way forward for Internet access in the UK. New arrangements for charging users will be...
[November 16, 1999, 10:03]
AOL Denies Unmetered Report
News It backed CUT (Campaign for Unmetered Telecommunications) and has been an outspoken critic of BT, accusing the telco of holding back the development of the Internet in the UK and "ripping off" consumers.
[April 12, 2000, 13:37]
LineOne Dumps Unmetered Access
News LineOne, the ISP part-owned by British Telecommunications (quote: BT) made a dramatic U-turn this weekend by abandoning its unmetered Internet service, leaving thousands of disappointed users. While many ISPs have been forced to jump on the...
[July 17, 2000, 9:19]
BT Crawls Towards 'unmetered Access'
News The Campaign for Unmetered Telecommunications (CUT) views it as a victory. 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.
[November 9, 1999, 16:11]
BT Offers Unmetered Access, But Only In Towns
News A deal struck between British Telecommunications and telco WorldCom was paraded Wednesday as evidence that BT is on the side of unmetered access in the UK. AltaVista and other ISPs struggling to maintain unmetered services under BT's current...
[August 23, 2000, 14:55]
News Roundup: BT's Unmetered Net Access Plan
News While the Campaign for Unmetered Telecommunications (CUT) welcomes the move from the telecoms giant, it believes the price for always-on Internet access will have to fall to around £25 before it becomes popular with the average consumer.
[December 8, 1999, 11:21]
Update: AOL Denies Unmetered -- But Soon
News For the last 18 months AOL has been leading the fight to get unmetered access in the UK, supporting CUT (Campaign for Unmetered Telecommunications) and losing no opportunity to point the finger of blame for high prices at BT.
[April 12, 2000, 15:41]
MEP Calls For Unmetered Access In UK
News A spokesman for CUT (Campaign for Unmetered Telecommunications) welcomed Wallis' comments. The call for unmetered Internet calls gained another ally Tuesday as MEP Diana Wallis added her voice to the campaign.
[November 3, 1999, 8:00]
CallNet Debut Highlights Need For Unmetered Access - Analysts
News The Campaign for Unmetered Telecommunications (CUT), seized on CallNet's difficulties asserting that it did not address long term issues. The problems experienced by CallNet on its first day as the UK's first truly free Internet access provider...
[November 2, 1999, 9:16]
Industry Says Unmetered Access Too Expensive
News CUT (Campaign for Unmetered Telecommunications) is not usually heard praising BT but did congratulate the telco on its decision to introduce unmetered access. Industry leaders and lobbyists have responded angrily to BT's announcement it will...
[December 7, 1999, 13:40]
Breathe To Launch Unmetered Offer
News Two months after it was saved from the scrap heap by Great Universal Stores, Breathe.com is to launch a new unmetered Internet access service. Breathe shut down its original unmetered package before Christmas and went into administration with about...
[February 26, 2001, 13:13]
Red Hot Ant Halts Unmetered Signup
News Internet service start-up Red Hot Ant has stopped accepting new customers for its unmetered access service and blames the freeze on confusion over the rollout of BT's unmetered package for ISPs, Friaco (Flat Rate Internet Access Call Origination).
[January 8, 2001, 15:51]
Critics: Net Dialup Price Cuts Mean More In BT Coffers
News Cheaper Net calls negotiated between large ISPs and telcos are benefiting BT far more than consumers, according to the Campaign for Unmetered Telecommunications (CUT). AOL refused to discuss details of its negotiations but admitted the deal was...
[September 28, 1999, 17:23]
