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Beware Wanadoo's Poor Service!
Forum Having had problems with BT in the past which were promptly corrected I have found that Wanadoo has provided pretty disgraceful service. I have signed up to Wanadoo wireless and talk six weeks ago and 10 days after my broadband was supposed to be...
[March 11, 2006, 16:35]
PlusNet Trumps Wanadoo's Broadband Price Cuts
News PlusNet has responded to Wanadoo's recent price cuts by offering 1Mb connections at £14.99 a month, and 2Mb connections at £19.99 a month. It follows Wanadoo's announcement yesterday that it would be undercutting its rivals, such as PlusNet, by...
[August 25, 2004, 15:05]
Wanadoo Unbundles Local-loop Plans
News Wanadoo is planning to have at least half of its customers accessing the Internet via its own network rather than BT's, but says its relationship with the telco is now all smiles. Sichel said that Wanadoo's decision to move towards LLU is part of...
[September 8, 2005, 9:50]
Wanadoo Launches Unbundled Broadband
News This is four times as fast as BT's own broadband, which Wanadoo will continue to sell. Wanadoo declined to comment on Bulldog's problems but indicated that relations with BT were going well at present.
[November 8, 2005, 17:05]
Boosting Broadband Competition Is Vital, Says IoD
News The report's author -- Professor Jim Norton, senior policy advisor at the IoD -- claimed that Ofcom has indicated that it will look favourably on a formal complaint by Wanadoo that BT is in breach of the Competition Act.
[October 8, 2004, 16:05]
Wanadoo Admits Broadband Unbundling Problems
News LLU has allowed operators such as Wanadoo to offer their own range of services, such as faster broadband services, ahead of BT rather than just reselling BT's range of wholesale products. The user claims to have experienced problems migrating to...
[April 6, 2006, 15:20]
Broadband In A Box To Hit The Shops
News Put this together with the learning we have from our parent company Wanadoo's rapid-roll of DSL in France, and you have all the ingredients for Freeserve to be the UK's broadband provider of choice. Chief executive John Pluthero claimed that the...
[April 18, 2002, 17:43]
France Telecom Tipped For Cable & Wireless Takeover
News Action taken by Ofcom last year has made LLU more feasible, and Wanadoo recently said it would spend £300m unbundling BT exchanges. If successful, France Telecom would then merge Bulldog, C&W's broadband service, with its own Wanadoo operations.
[June 20, 2005, 11:30]
Orange Silent On Major Broadband Outage
News Orange merged with Wanadoo back in May, after which Wanadoo's broadband service was rebranded under the Orange name. Wanadoo had also been criticised by its users, some of whom were so disgruntled they set up a Web site in April to discuss Wanadoo...
[October 18, 2006, 14:10]
Orange Brings It All Together
News Eric Abensur, the ex-Wanadoo UK head and now Orange UK's vice president of broadband, said he expected customers would soon be using the Livebox to wirelessly network everything from their TVs and PCs to their games consoles and MP3 players.
[May 31, 2006, 16:00]
Small ISPs Being Forced Into Niche Services
News Couple that with the resources of the international incumbents buying ISPs — in the UK, witness Spain’s Telefonica and Be Broadband, or France Telecom and Wanadoo/Orange — and it’s not difficult to see where the pressure for smaller players is...
[June 30, 2006, 16:05]
BTopenworld Drops Broadband Activation Charge
News Freeserve, which is part of European telecoms giant Wanadoo, is keeping its marketing cards close to its chest at this stage though. Broadband is a central plank in the Freeserve strategy and the strategy in Europe for Wanadoo.
[February 27, 2002, 12:47]
US Blocks Overseas ISPs From Voting Site
News Wanadoo and BT have both been hit by the blockade, according to sources familiar with the situation, and early reports have claimed that Telefonica and China Telecom are also hit. A spokeswoman for Democrats Abroad said she was aware that customers...
[September 21, 2004, 17:25]
Wanadoo Rebuked Over 8Mbps Broadband Claims
News Wanadoo can offer an 8Mbps service because it has installed its own kit in BT's local exchanges. The Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) has upheld a complaint against UK ISP Wanadoo over its promotions for its 8Mbps broadband service.
[February 8, 2006, 17:05]
Does Wanadoo Want Freeserve?
News Freeserve (quote: FRE), the Internet service provider 80 percent owned by Dixons, could be taken over by French rival Wanadoo, according to the latest industry rumours. Sunday Business reported this week that Wanadoo, which floated in July, is "in...
[October 2, 2000, 10:34]
Freeserve Defiant After Dixons Chooses AOL
News Freeserve, now a subsidiary of France's Wanadoo, said that its other distribution channels, including offline and online, topped the number of subscribers generated by the Dixons deal in the first quarter of 2003.
[September 1, 2003, 9:40]
BT Cuts Prices As VoIP Market Hots Up
News VoIP old-timer and fellow ISP Wanadoo revealed its subscriber numbers today. Wanadoo said nearly half of its new broadband subscribers are choosing to use VoIP now, with each of its VoIP users making around 150 minutes of calls per month.
[September 28, 2005, 18:05]
Broadband Competition Boost As Energis Lands Wanadoo
News BT wasn't able to say if it would still be supplying Wanadoo with IPStream products for its future broadband customers, but did say that a migration path is in place to move customers from IPStream to Datastream if required.
[June 16, 2004, 15:30]
BT Users Suffer Random Outages
News BT wouldn't provide details of which of its retail customers were affected as a result, although AOL, Virgin, Wanadoo and Zen all confirmed they had been hit by outages. Although none were immediately able to provide precise information on how many...
[December 1, 2005, 8:30]
BT Faces Legal Action Over ADSL
News British Telecommunications (quote: BT) could be hit by legal action by the likes of AOL Europe and Wanadoo-owned Freeserve (quote: FRE) over its glitchy rollout of high-speed ADSL Internet access. The introduction of BT's ADSL has been sluggish...
[February 8, 2001, 10:33]
