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RSS licenceCarrefour supermarkets to sell phone services
News Omnicom's fixed telephony licence, obtained last year, will enable Carrefour to offer customers a fixed-line service at prices up to 50 per cent lower than those of competitors Cegetel and France Telecom. [27 Oct 1998]
Call centres get top billing at insurance conference
News Also on offer was downloadable software that offers a pay-as-you-go licence to combat unexpected call centre growth and IVR (interactive voice recognition) technology. The importance of the call centre was driven home at... [23 Oct 1998]
Oftel U-turn gives Ionica breathing space
News The shift means that Ionica will be spared from its licence obligation of having to roll out a service to 75 per cent of the UK by 2000. UK telecoms regulator Oftel has proposed a change in policy towards fixed radio... [19 Oct 1998]
Intel adds weight to RealNetworks video streaming software
News Real Networks is to licence video compression software from Intel to further improve its next audio and video player - G2 - which is currently being beta tested. The combined version should be available within 30 days. [17 Sep 1998]
Row erupts over online pub game crash
News We are still a solvent business with a licence to do what we do," said Lord Mancroft, adding: "We are the wronged party. Partners in a online lottery pub game have fallen out and appear to be about to take each other to... [08 Sep 1998]
BT close to Korean investment
News Elsewhere in the Far East, BT has recently been awarded a licence to build its own network in Japan - the world's second largest telecoms market - through a joint venture with Marubeni Corporation. It has also acquired a... [01 Sep 1998]
More grief for Microsoft as Bristol jumps on antitrust bandwagon
News Bristol said Microsoft is trying to lock it into a licence which is "oppressive, unworkable and unreasonable". A small, privately held software development company is suing Microsoft for allegedly violating antitrust law. [19 Aug 1998]
Sun enjoys Solaris give-away success
News And any applications deployed for commercial use mean developers need to buy a proper licence. Sun Microsystems claims it received over 10,000 requests for the freeware version of Solaris it made available last week. [19 Aug 1998]
High-tech companies battle for BBC contract
News The BBC is in talks with high-tech companies for the contract to collect licence fee payments. The BBC said since it took over responsibility for the collection of the fee in 1991 the cost of evasion and collection costs... [18 Aug 1998]
In brief: Orange and Viag Interkom venture gains EC approval
News Orange Overseas Holding, a joint venture between the UK's Orange and Viag Interkom of Germany, looks set to be awarded a digital mobile telephony licence in Switzerland after gaining EC approval. The EC scrutinised the... [12 Aug 1998]
BT takeover rumours send Olivetti shares soaring
News The speculation comes after a BT-led venture lost its bid for Italy's third mobile licence in June. The Italian government instead awarded the licence to Wind - a consortium led by the state-owned... [07 Aug 1998]
In brief: LogicLine wins Unwins contract
News UK off-licence Unwins has installed a Synergy system from LogicLine at a price of £220,000. The software and services contract will link the in-store Epos network with the stock system at warehouses in Dartford, Brighton... [31 Jul 1998]
Net gambling issue opens transatlantic rift
News For instance, betting over the Internet is permitted as long as the operator holds a bookmaker's licence. A rift between the US and European approaches to the Internet has opened up over the issue of Internet gambling. [29 Jul 1998]
In brief: BT continues Asian invasion
News BT's expansion in Asia continued today with confirmation that it has been granted a Type 1 licence by Japan's Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MPT), meaning it is allowed to build and own its own infrastructure... [28 Jul 1998]
BBC ousts Net chief
News The Web site has been heavily criticised by many within the industry for too closely mirroring the Corporation's television service, and for spending licence payers' money on a service which only 10 per cent of them can... [23 Jul 1998]
