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News BT is hoping to pick up business from Internet service providers (ISPs) by offering to share dial-up call revenues with them, enabling ISPs to offer customers a range of pay-as-you-go access services.
[23 Feb 1999]
News BT announced on Tuesday that it is taking action to try and stop customers running up huge bills caused by illicit dialling software commandeering PCs. According to a BT spokesperson, the company's customer service investigation team will compile a...
[29 Jun 2004]
News BT has contacted 850,000 users of its unmetered dial-up access services offering them free DSL upgrades at a saving of £150. The email has been sent to thousands of subscribers, many of whom are heavy users whose excessive surfing habits have...
[02 Oct 2001]
News Around 30,000 heavy users of BT's Anytime unmetered access product have been moved to a separate 'dial pool', with a different phone number for their modem to dial, 0808 99 33 004 instead of 0808 99 33 001.
[15 Oct 2001]
News Tiscali UK is launching into the national ISP market with a deal for unmetered dial ports from BT Wholesale. Unmetered dial ports are a means of providing consumers with permanent access to the internet for either a fixed or a low price.
[03 Oct 2001]
News These conclusions were published in response to a request from BT that Oftel should relax its regulation of BT's wholesale dial-up services. Oftel has announced that the market for dial-up internet service providers is sufficiently competitive.
[03 Sep 2001]
News 20.05.99: MSN teams with BT to offer free dial-up internet service in the UK, through a program called MSN FreeWeb. Dial-up net access, no matter how cheap, is passe. While a good share of home users still use narrowband, the number of dial-up...
[20 May 2004]
News BT is giving protection against fraudsters who hijack dial-up internet connections and redirect them to premium rate telephone numbers. This should stop dialler software, which can be secretly installed on a PC and used to connect to the web via...
[16 Mar 2005]
News A lot of the feedback we have from users is that their monthly subscription charge is minimal by comparison to the amount they are being charged by BT for dial-up access. Internet users in the UK are today being offered an alternative to the free...
[18 Feb 1999]
News BT has bowed to industry pressure and reduced tariffs for ISP's running dial-up access services. It won't help ISPs provide anything of much interest, for example, to the significant number of small businesses that still use dial-up Internet access.
[10 Nov 1999]
News BT's cash from its traditional business, including dial-up and fixed line phone services, also took a downward turn - dropping by six per cent, which BT said was the result of increased competition, price cuts, regulation and also a drive by the...
[29 Jul 2004]
News ClaraCall, launched this week by ClaraNet, claims it can offer discounts of up to 40 per cent on BT standard local call charges, and so offer its customers far cheaper dial-up access to the Internet. The Campaign for Unmetered Telecommunications...
[19 Feb 1999]
News ClaraCall, launched this week by ClaraNet, claims it can offer discounts of up to 40 per cent on BT standard local call charges, and so offer its customers far cheaper dial-up access to the Internet. 19.02.99: The Campaign for Unmetered...
[19 Feb 2004]
News Oftel DG David Edmonds also said consumers still benefit from "good deals on unmetered dial-up access". Separate research has shown broadband adoption growing at these rates while narrowband dial-up levels remain almost static.
[27 Jan 2003]
News D is for Dial-up D is for Dial-up D is for Dial-up Dial-up At home, Kingston offers four internet options consisting of two broadband, one dial-up and one wireless package. D is for Dial-up D is for Dial-up
[01 Nov 2006]
News Neil Barrett, technical director at security consultancy IRM, said: "Almost all illicit activity on the internet starts with a telephone call somewhere to a dial-up account which ends up with an operator.
[08 Mar 2001]
News BT calls this access the "broadband dial tone", comparing it to the buzzing noise a fixed-line telephone makes to show that it is functioning. With the broadband dial tone, you will be able to plug any IP-based device into the network and it will...
[09 Jun 2004]
News They only affect dial-up connections but some broadband users have been hit because they also have dial-up connections as a back-up. Speaking to ZDNet UK on Tuesday, Gibson revealed he has recently been hit by a £450 bill from BT after his computer...
[07 Sep 2005]
Comment And the cost of my dial-up access has been increased by the BT subscription for a second line, used purely for data purposes. For a while, I was very satisfied with a flat rate dial-up service. In fact, the only time I have heard BT make much of...
[13 May 2003]
News Sky's current set-top boxes use a dial-up connection to the internet, and there has long been speculation that this could be upgraded to a broadband connection. It has to be all of them", adding that it has always been only "a matter of time" until...
[14 Oct 2005]
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