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Freeserve And Wanadoo Seize The Day
News On Wednesday France Telecom's Wanadoo unveiled an offer to acquire the UK's leading Internet service provider, Freeserve (quote: FRE), in an all-share deal that would create Europe's second largest Internet provider.
[December 6, 2000, 15:11]
It's A Deal: Wanadoo Makes Freeserve Bid
News Freeserve (quote: FRE) announced Wednesday it has received an offer for a takeover from bankers Lehman Brothers on behalf of Wanadoo, France Telecom's Internet service provider. Shares in Wanadoo, 88 percent owned by France Telecom, closed on...
[December 6, 2000, 10:20]
2,000 Face Axe In Orange-Wanadoo Merger
News As part of what France Telecom calls its NExT (New Experience in Telecoms) strategy, Orange UK is becoming a mobile and broadband service and absorbing France Telecom's British broadband service, Wanadoo UK.
[May 5, 2006, 17:35]
France Telecom Tipped For Cable & Wireless Takeover
News If successful, France Telecom would then merge Bulldog, C&W's broadband service, with its own Wanadoo operations. Action taken by Ofcom last year has made LLU more feasible, and Wanadoo recently said it would spend £300m unbundling BT exchanges.
[June 20, 2005, 11:30]
Orange Cuts Broadband Pricing Following Flat Sales
News The "free broadband" push came shortly after France Telecom merged its Wanadoo internet service provider (ISP) into its Orange brand, and immediately followed a similar offer from Carphone Warehouse. Fogg - who said he was "not surprised" at Orange...
[October 26, 2006, 16:30]
Tiscali Buys Liberty Surf
News Liberty Surf is France's second largest ISP, after France Telecom's Wanadoo, which has 2.05 million subscribers. Tiscali is one of Europe's four big players, the others being Germany's T-Online, France's Wanadoo and Spain's Terra Lycos.
[January 8, 2001, 11:15]
Orange Brings It All Together
News The hub of the new converged services will be a device called Livebox, which Orange inherited from Wanadoo after the two companies - which are both owned by France Telecom - merged earlier this year. Eric Abensur, the ex-Wanadoo UK head and now...
[May 31, 2006, 16:00]
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. Wanadoo, which is currently in the middle of a local-loop unbundling...
[September 8, 2005, 9:50]
Freeserve In Possible Takeover Talks
News The possible deal would be entirely in stock, leading to speculation the mystery buyer is France Telecom's Wanadoo. Wanadoo is also rumoured to have been in talks with LibertySurf and the Freeserve discussions are said to be at a very early stage.
[November 22, 2000, 11:33]
Freeserve's Broadband Complaint Bites The Dust
Talkback Freeserve is owned by Wanadoo, as subsidiary of France Telecom. What is the situation re broadband pricing to its competitors in its own country?
[December 22, 2003, 13:17]
Orange Gets Into Broadband
News Both Orange and Wanadoo are owned by France Telecom, and this deal marks the early stages of a plan to rebrand Wanadoo as Orange. Orange will offer new subscribers a 2Mbps connection from Wanadoo for £9.99 per month, around 50 percent less than...
[August 31, 2005, 12:25]
Orange Widens Broadband Arsenal
News Sanjiv Ahuja, Orange CEO, speaking at a press conference in Cannes at this week's 3GSM show, talked up the company's place alongside Equant and especially ISP Wanadoo in the France Telecom stable of companies.
[February 15, 2005, 11:25]
Wanadoo Admits Broadband Unbundling Problems
News Broadband provider Wanadoo admitted that it was suffering service problems on Thursday, after one user launched a Web site dedicated to Wanadoo customer complaints. The forum - WanadooProblems.co.uk - was launched by a disgruntled Wanadoo user to...
[April 6, 2006, 15:20]
Wanadoo Reveals VoIP Service
News ISP Wanadoo has joined the voice-over-IP fray with the launch of a new service for making inexpensive phone calls. For £4 per month, the service, called Wanadoo Wireless and Talk, gives customers unlimited calls to any UK landline at no additional...
[March 10, 2005, 13:20]
Freeserve Founders Switch To VoIP Venture
News The founders of ISP Freeserve -- now known as Wanadoo and owned by France Telecom -- have accepted the top spots at voice over IP (VoIP) company Callserve Communications. Ahmed and Wilmot left Freeserve in 2001, after selling the company to Wanadoo...
[September 23, 2004, 10:25]
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]
US Portals To Storm Europe - Study
News Spanish Telefonica's Terra Networks, France Telecom's Wanadoo and Deutsche Telekom's T-Online. European markets such as France and Germany are moving toward the current situation in Britain, where the top three portals grab 14 percent of traffic...
[November 1, 2000, 14:37]
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]
News Burst: Breathe.com Gasps Its Last
News Freeserve, Britain's largest ISP, was recently sold to rival Wanadoo, owned by France Telecom. The Internet service provider Breathe.com collapsed under a load of £50m in debts last week, and on Friday PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) was appointed as...
[December 18, 2000, 10:35]
Incumbent Telcos Accused Of Plotting Against VoIP
Talkback In Paris for example one can get TV, telephone and broadband delivered to your home via the France telecom socket and a contract with free.fr or wanadoo.fr. You only have to look to FRANCE typically a country which lags in the technology arena to...
[November 19, 2004, 9:12]
