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Comment Clearly Sky's entry into the broadband market has been good for competition, along with players such as Carphone Warehouse's TalkTalk (life's what you make it, indeed) and Orange (doesn't Freeserve seem like a long time... [09 Feb 2007]
Orange slashes fat pipe pricing
News Fogg - who said he was "not surprised" at Orange's price cuts - also pointed out Orange's broadband offering could have suffered when it was rebranded twice in the last two years (it was Freeserve prior to becoming... [27 Oct 2006]
Yahoo! engine sparks Browzar backlash
News As a result, some have called Browzar "adware", a claim Ajaz Ahmed - founder of Freeserve and now Browzar - has denied. The man behind private surfing tool Browzar has responded to mounting criticism by assuring users... [04 Sep 2006]
Browser taps into web privacy fears
News The founder of Freeserve has unveiled his latest venture - a web-browsing tool that claims to preserve the privacy of its users. Ahmed founded the Freeserve ISP in the late 1990s. Ajaz Ahmed's... [31 Aug 2006]
3GSM: Orange moves forward on several fronts
News Ahuja said Orange is learning about broadband from Wanadoo, which in the UK was previously Freeserve. Orange has been talking up its plans to be a mobile broadband provider, calling itself "the integrated operator",... [15 Feb 2005]
5 years ago... Dixons ditches Freeserve
News 13.01.2000: Dixons Store Group (DSG) has announced a four-way stock split and the full spin-off of its ISP Freeserve. The company said in a statement that the reason for the restructuring was to "separate Dixons' retail... [13 Jan 2005]
BT reveals Danon successor
News Still only 40, he came to prominence as one of the team that helped with the stellar rise of ISP Freeserve, when he was finance director at Dixons Group. The successor to BT Retail CEO Pierre Danon has been named as... [10 Dec 2004]
'BT price cuts would improve broadband competition'
News Freeserve (now Wanadoo) alleged in 2002 that BT Openworld, the telco's retail arm, was selling its broadband at a loss. Further cuts in BT's wholesale prices "would go a long way" towards promoting more competition in... [08 Oct 2004]
Freeserve founders to head up 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. Freeserve co-founder Ajaz Ahmed... [22 Sep 2004]
Ofcom slams BT on anti-competitive broadband
News Freeserve (now Wanadoo) alleged in 2002 that BT Openworld, the telco's retail arm, was selling its broadband at a loss. Freeserve's claim was twice rejected by Oftel, the UK telecommunications regulator... [02 Sep 2004]
"We're back" - Energis reports 2004 profit
News The company's executive team, besides O'Hare, includes former Asda boss Archie Norman as chairman and, as CEO, John Pluthero, who used to run Freeserve, until recently the name for Wanadoo's UK arm. Energis claims to... [16 Jun 2004]
BT hacks LLU prices - Ofcom looks on grinning
News Long-time critic Wanadoo, formerly Freeserve, which wants to push into the streaming media world, rushed out a short and sweet statement simply welcoming the new charges. BT announced today that it is slashing its LLU... [13 May 2004]
5 years ago: Barclays.net goes live
News The era of the free ISP - ushered in by Freeserve and a few others - got people thinking that they too could capture customers, or pull together existing services, and maybe make some money from dial-up revenue splits in... [07 May 2004]
Leader: UK broadband - alive and kicking
Leader That ISP has not only changed its name from Freeserve but lamented the failure that has been LLU in the UK. Local loop unbundling. LLU. Say it any way you want but we haven't heard it talked about in a while. [27 Apr 2004]
Wanadoo ready to push VoIP and battle BT
News As of Wednesday, Freeserve will officially be dead. Parent company France Telecom is burying the hippy-flavoured ISP and rebranding it under the Wanadoo label, all with a heavy broadband bias. The company is so keen to... [27 Apr 2004]
