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RSS isp 'sItaly's largest ISP looms as Enel buys Infostrada
News Infostrada will be merged into Wind, Enel's joint venture with France Telecom, to create Italy's largest ISP, with 8,000 staff and 12 million customers. Enel will pay E5.5bn (£3.3bn) in cash and the remaining 50 per cent in mortgage bonds. [11 Oct 2000]
France Telecom's ISP 'won't make profit until 2003'
News Michel Bon, managing director of France Telecom, told La Tribune the ISP could break even in France in 2003 and in its European operations in 2004 as internet costs were eating into its earnings. However, he claimed the company was hoping to raise... [11 Jul 2000]
EarthLink Becomes North America's Number Two ISP, Serving Over 4.8 Million
White Paper Atlanta, Georgia-based EarthLink, Inc.has rapidly become one of the world's top Internet Service Providers (ISP). Also, EarthLink's challenge was to deliver robust enterprise services to over 6000 employees. [02 Nov 2005]
Telewest UK's most liked ISP, NTL least liked
News People who ring up their ISP want to be served quickly, they want to get through to a person - they don't like automated systems - and they want to get their problem resolved by the first person they speak to. [13 Dec 2005]
Infrastructure Solutions Supporting O2's Integrated Mobile ISP
White Paper HOS worked with Sun to provided a new mobile portal and fixed line ISP service that would be designed and launched to allow customers send emails, receive notification of new emails via SMS text messages, recharge their Speakeasy (prepaid) phone... [17 Nov 2004]
BT's 'no frills' DSL is an ISP killer
News It is the ISP here but it's separating access from content because it wants to change the way it charges customers. The BT Broadband product removes the need for users to subscribe to an ISP as BT Retail intends to channel users through its network... [24 Apr 2002]
European ISP Uses RAD's TDMoIP to Transport Voice and Data Over Nationwide IP Backbone
White Paper Tiscali France is an Internet communications company that provides broadband and narrowband access for consumer and business applications. The company wanted to optimize the cost of long distance transport over an Ethernet/IP backbone while... [10 Jul 2008]
How the UK’s First Free ISP Geared Up for the Rapid Growth in Demand
White Paper With the rapid changes in the telecomms market, telcos were starting to offer deals which returned to large user’s part of the call charges and in July 1998 Athene negotiated just such an arrangement with a supplier. [24 Feb 2004]
Ex-AOL chief accused over ad revenue 'deception'
News Former AOL chairman Steve Case has been ordered to appear in court over accusations he was deliberately dishonest about the ISP's ad revenues before its merger with entertainment giant Time Warner. AOL's fortunes floundered with the dot-com crash... [12 Aug 2004]
Time for Freeserve to stand up and be counted
Comment Like other dot-coms, this ISP's future lies in advertising, ecommerce and additional services. Freeserve, the ISP that heralded the end of connection and monthly subscription fees, was widely tipped as the biggest loser of the week. [13 Mar 2000]
Microsoft linked to T-Online stake purchase
News Microsoft's own ISP, MSN, has a subscriber base of about seven million people although these are largely based in the US. German ISP T-Online is rumoured to be considering selling a 25 per cent stake in the company to Redmond giant Microsoft. [17 May 2002]
Wire-tapping laws set to cost UK ISPs millions
News The UK government's amendments to the Interception of Communications Act (IOCA) could cost large ISPs more than £1m a year, according to Demon Internet - the first ISP to complete a cost analysis of the proposals. [20 Aug 1999]
Wanadoo to double deal in Easdaq
News Wanadoo, which last December bought the UK's largest ISP, Freeserve, in a £1.65bn deal, is currently listed on one of several Paris-based low-cap technology exchanges, Euronext Paris. The combined Wanadoo-Freeserve operation has 4.3 million... [02 Feb 2001]
Freeserve loses money and BT loses its sense of irony
News Second quarter losses, announced yesterday, for the UK's largest ISP, increased from £13.4m to £18.4m for the three months ending 11 November. However, Freeserve believes Christmas will prove to be a light at the end of this particular tunnel with... [19 Dec 2000]
AOL joins battle in free ISP fray
News AOL today makes its push into the UK's free ISP market with the launch of Netscape Online, its first subscription-free service. In January, the runaway success of the Dixons-owned Freeserve knocked AOL off the top spot as the UK's largest ISP, with... [24 Aug 1999]
