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News Both were previously involved with the Campaign for Unmetered Telecommunications (CUT), a pressure group whose work led to the creation of the FRIACO tariff, which lets ISPs offer unlimited narrowband surfing for a fixed... [30 Apr 2003]
Flat-rate AOL survives in UK
News The difference between Britain and Germany, AOL explained, is that while in the UK BT must provide a wholesale unmetered narrowband internet access product - FRIACO - there is no such compulsion on Deutsche Telekom. [27 Feb 2003]
Jumpers for goalposts, fat pipes for officials
News The FA has a large number of what in effect are remote users - our broadband and FRIACO services provide the ideal platform to the FA for this as part of their organisation-wide virtual private network," Iain Ogilvie,... [02 Dec 2002]
BT told to cut internet prices
News The cost of that connection supplied by BT, known by the snappy acronym of Friaco, only represents a small part of the cost of a monthly unmetered internet subscription. Another cut in Friaco prices... [18 Jul 2002]
RedHotAnt chief sent to jail
News No one could make it work, until BT launched its Friaco service, offering ISPs an unlimited tariff product they could sell on to their customers. Kevin Wall, the boss of ISP RedHotAnt, has been jailed for five years. [15 Jul 2002]
No more plans for DSL price cuts, says BT
News This is despite the fact that BT Wholesale actually enjoys relatively high margins for its DSL products - higher, in fact, than its FRIACO flat-rate dial-up narrowband internet access products. BT Wholesale has no plans... [21 Jun 2002]
Oftel whips BT into line on Friaco
News Under current rules, ISPs offering unmetered internet access to their customers using BT Wholesale's Friaco product pay BT in advance, either quarterly or monthly, though their subscribers pay in arrears. [15 May 2002]
BT claims Friaco price cuts are too steep
News BT has hit back at Oftel's proposal to force it to reduce the price of its flat rate internet access service Friaco, saying that the suggested cuts would be too steep. Friaco was developed in 2000 by AOL... [20 Feb 2002]
The BT hyperlinks saga: A best of Reader Comments special
News They need to win back a few after the fiasco with friaco and other issues to do with unmetered/broadband internet access in the UK. As we predicted earlier this week (http://www.silicon.com/a51209 ) most users believe... [13 Feb 2002]
Virgin.net walks out on NTL
News Virgin.net wants all Stop the Clock customers to switch to its alternative unmetered internet access service using BT's Friaco product. For Virgin.net customers who have BT as a telephone provider, the switch to... [16 Jan 2002]
Cloud Nine tears chunks out of BT
News After 19 October Cloud Nine reported a significant increase in the number of connection failures when its users tried to log on to Friaco unmetered dial-up accounts. The move left users of Friaco... [12 Nov 2001]
Oftel says 'Oftel has done a great job'... must be true
News The introduction of fixed-cost internet products using Friaco during 2000 meant the narrowband internet situation in the UK did improve over the year. The widely criticised UK telecoms regulator Oftel has warmly... [11 Jul 2001]
The first CUT is the deepest: Telecoms champion bows out
News But two years later, we found ourselves working with government to develop [the first fixed-rate internet access product from BT], Friaco. The influential Campaign for Unmetered Telecoms (CUT) has dissolved itself,... [11 Jun 2001]
Oftel rejects BT's price control plea
News Price controls were imposed on BT's wholesale products, too - ranging from a 13 per cent cut on tandem products, to a 7.5 per cent cut on Friaco fixed rate internet access products. However, Oftel has turned the claim... [28 Mar 2001]
Small ISPs excluded from Friaco
News She says: "It is suitable for larger ones like Tesco which has over 400,000 user to 500,000 users - any lower than wouldn't want to use Friaco. While he admits that at present the company does use a pay-as-you-go system... [09 Mar 2001]
