TechTrader: World CallNet's Background Of Oil, Telly
News World CallNet (www.world-callNet.com ) has two main lines of business: a free ISP and a TV-based Net access system. At that time World Wide (as it was then known) was already engaged in designing technology for TV-based Net access and in operating...
[October 28, 1999, 7:13]
Exclusive: CallNet's Email For The Masses
News World CallNet plans to launch the service 2 December, ZDNet News has learned. World CallNet's chief executive operating officer Aaron Goodman-Simpson, remains confident. Coming up on Monday: an exclusive interview with World CallNet CEOO Aaron...
[November 12, 1999, 11:00]
A Month In The Life Of An Unmetered ISP
News CallNet being wound up as creditors form queue Thu, 14 Sep CallNet's business model relied on people using a dialling prefix. Thu, 21 Sep As AOL hails the arrival of Friaco, World Online blames its non-appearance for the decision to cut back its...
[September 19, 2000, 14:20]
AltaVista Offers Unlimited Surfing For £10 A Year
News AltaVista is a world-class organisation, and we are pleased to have them by our side," said a CallNet spokesman. CallNet 0800 set the ball rolling when it launched its totally free service back in November.
[March 3, 2000, 15:50]
IT's Like This: Cost Is Gone, Get On.
News Personally I hope CallNet's debut goes smoothly because: Tickled pink I was that on Monday, CallNet, a diminutive little firm with the gall to stand up and say, "It can be done.will make BT's latest effort look so very dull.
[November 1, 1999, 10:48]
Jane Wakefield: Once Upon A Time There Was The Net
News Like all good fairy tales, the story of CallNet was just too good to be true -- and sadly predictable. If the UK public was Cinderella -- uninvited to the unmetered access ball -- then CallNet was certainly the fairy godmother intent on getting her...
[November 8, 1999, 12:12]
Jane Wakefield: BT Admits It's Good To Surf
News Free 24-hour Net access in the UK has finally arrived as CallNet bravely goes where no ISP has gone before. And that doesn't just mean a handful of operators like CallNet offering relief from BT's stranglehold but fundamental changes in the way BT...
[October 29, 1999, 13:26]
Jane Wakefield: How We Can't Resist A Bargain
News CallNet 0800 has had some huge problems coping with demand and, if emails to ZDNet are anything to go by, has not always had a very solid service. In fact it is currently trying to improve its network which will include changing name from CallNet...
[June 12, 2000, 17:00]
2000 Roundup: A Year Of Unmetered Access?
News This pattern was continued in June when CallNet admitted its service was far too popular and suspended registrations. April saw breathe and World Online adopt unmetered services but behind the scenes an almighty row was brewing between operators.
[December 23, 2000, 6:17]
CallNet Reconnected After Emergency Talks
News The senior management of CallNet was restructured in August by the parent company World CallNet. Beleaguered unmetered pioneer CallNet is set to get up and running again after holding emergency talks with teleco Cable & Wireless, which has agreed...
[September 14, 2000, 17:11]
The Man Behind Free Net Access - Exclusive
News It has a varied evolution and CallNet is just one part of the World CallNet company. To tell the truth, CallNet originally started in a pub in Hampshire, way back. However, I personally spoke to CallNet on the Thursday before launch.
[November 16, 1999, 11:13]
Update: CallNet Being Wound Up As Creditors Form Queue
News Simpson, along with other senior executives was ousted in August after an aggressive takeover by shareholders of World CallNet of Australia. A former darling of the free Internet access model, CallNet, has had its phone lines cut and is being sued...
[September 14, 2000, 9:55]
Free Internet -- What You Actually Get, A ZDNet Guide
News CallNet now claims there are no problems but users report the service is often down.users have joined so far. CallNet was the first ISP to offer totally free Internet access, back in November. So, Here's a (hopefully) useful guide to the giddy...
[March 8, 2000, 11:22]
Freeserve To Bar Heavy Users
News Unmetered pioneers such as CallNet have run into financial difficulties and AltaVista UK recently scrapped a planned flat rate service. World Online and Breathe have both set limits on their flat-rate packages, and Breathe has barred 500...
[October 5, 2000, 12:39]
AOL UK Unmetered Package 'imminent'
News But while cheap, these services have had trouble keeping up with demand, leading to sporadic breakdowns by the likes of Callnet, and forcing AltaVista to up its monthly rate from £10 to £50 a year. AOL UK is to roll out unmetered access "imminently...
[June 27, 2000, 12:51]
