dial-up net access
Brits spending record time online
News Broadband penetration also grew in the last year, creeping up from 52 per cent of households to 58 per cent - mainly as a result of dial-up internet users upgrading to fat pipes, the... [14 Aug 2008]
Four in 10 UK homes shunning the net
News There are now nearly 14 million households on either dial-up or broadband, with 60 per cent of Britons saying they have accessed the web in the last six months. New government statistics show the UK is... [24 Aug 2006]
AOL offers freebie email, IM and more
News AOL said it would continue to offer dial-up internet access but will not aggressively market the service. In the mid-1990s, the company began charging a flat-rate fee for... [03 Aug 2006]
Windows flaw attack-code hits the net
News However, the MS06-025 fix can interfere with a certain dial-up networking connections, Microsoft said last week. The company advised people who use dial-up scripting or... [27 Jun 2006]
AOL co-founder steps down as ISP plans comeback
News As subscriber rates for its dial-up service rapidly decline, AOL is trying to transform from an internet service provider and portal with subscriber-only access to an open, online media... [01 Nov 2005]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: No more dial-up?
Comment This is an amazing rate of rollout in that 12 - and certainly 18 - months ago the need to dial-in to an ISP was a relatively common necessity for my business on the move. Before I left the UK I had wrongly assumed that... [19 Oct 2005]
Yahoo! buys into net phone services firm
News s longstanding relationship with regional dial-up and broadband service provider SBC. branded broadband access through SBC's telephone lines. has agreed to purchase Dialpad, a company... [15 Jun 2005]
AOL debuts VoIP phone service
News For the past three years, AOL has hemorrhaged more than 4 million dial-up subscribers, most of them leaving for broadband services offered by cable and phone companies. The company has tried to migrate... [07 Apr 2005]
BT blocks 1,000 premium-rate net scam lines
News Thousands of BT narrowband customers have already been tricked into downloading the dial-up software, often when trying to access pay-per-view websites. BT has blocked... [05 Oct 2004]
5 years ago… Oftel slams Cable & Wireless on billing U-turn
News Eventually the average punter was offered 'unlimited' dial-up packages, for net access, and now that debate has moved on as more and more home users subscribe to... [03 Sep 2004]
NTL signs £1.6m lifeboat deal
News A spokeswoman for NTL said it should ensure the faster deployment of lifeboats in an emergency, cutting down on system delays, such as gaining dial-up access to the network, that can... [27 Aug 2004]
Leader: Are download services the new free ISPs?
Leader There were opportunities for those with expertise elsewhere, in this case print media, to use their marketing nous to nab consumers who could by that stage use one of several hundred companies for simple,... [23 Jul 2004]
5 years ago…UK still leads Europe in internet usage
News Dial-up access continues to fall while broadband adoption picks up pace. The latest official government figures show that almost half of UK households - 12.1 million -... [08 Jul 2004]
Phone-charge Net fraud on the rise in UK
News This problem is restricted to users connecting to the internet by dial-up and can be avoided by using antivirus software, according to the NHTCU. BT has an advisory on its website telling customers how... [24 Jun 2004]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Free net access for all
Comment Returning to Europe was a bit of a shock as I decelerated down from 1.5 and 6Mbps to a mere 28Kbps, courtesy of local dial-in connections. Nine months have passed since that trip and I've just had my first... [17 Jun 2004]
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