unmetered
Pioneering Billing System Improves Customer Service and Reduces Development Costs
White Paper It produced annual bills for 1.5 million unmetered properties and billing throughout the year for 700,000 with meters, and was integrated with 13 other applications. A large part of Yorkshire Water's revenue is processed... [03 Dec 2008]
Radioactive: Do mobile operators covet broadband?
Comment Granted there are a number of metered and unmetered options but Vodafone's Zu Hause offering is clearly cheaper. Now that the services are arriving, Futurity Media's Anthony Plewes weighs their chances of success - and... [16 Mar 2005]
5 years ago… Oftel slams Cable & Wireless on billing U-turn
News This may seem like a small-time story but five years ago the case of Videotron customers - and more broadly unmetered telecoms - was a big deal. The Campaign for Unmetered Telecoms, CUT, made a noise... [03 Sep 2004]
British take a liking to broadband
News There has been a similar five per cent fall in those on unmetered plans, to 31 per cent of the total, and the number of people on mixed schemes has fallen from seven per cent to five. The UK public has taken broadband to... [18 May 2004]
Britain forecast to be broadband trailblazer
News Last year, the UK rose to third place for competitiveness, but languished in fifth place 'extensiveness', which is calculated on the basis of coverage and competition from rival services like unmetered narrowband services. [12 May 2004]
Internet Hero and Villain honoured with gongs
News Brightmail scooped Best Third Party Application, Mistral won Best Hosting Provider, Telewest Blueyonder won Best Unmetered Dial-up ISP, Bulldog won Best Consumer Broadband, Fibernet won Best Carrier, Linx won Best... [20 Feb 2004]
5 years ago... Telecoms campaigner criticises ISP but blames Oftel
News 19.02.99: The Campaign for Unmetered Telecommunications (CUT) has criticised Internet Service Provider ClaraNet's offer of huge discounts for dial-up net access, but has laid the final blame for the problem at Oftel's door. [19 Feb 2004]
5 years ago... Free ISP races towards the million mark
News The big switch, of course, came as unmetered dial-up access began to be offered. 14.01.99 Free internet service provider (ISP) Freeserve is claiming to have signed up its 900,000th member - making it the largest ISP in... [14 Jan 2004]
Half of UK homes now online
News As well as greater access to unmetered access, UK consumers have to pay less for their dial-up access than other European countries, Oftel said. Half of UK homes now have internet access, according to the latest research... [27 Oct 2003]
5 years ago... Spanish web users go on strike
News In the UK, surfers were hindered by the lack of unmetered dial-up price plans and minimum call costs - even for checking emails for 30 seconds. 03.09.98: An estimated 1.7 million Spanish web surfers are expected to go on... [03 Sep 2003]
Internet access prices unlikely to fall, despite Oftel action
News BT has fallen foul of watchdog Oftel once again, with the telco ordered on Monday to cut its wholesale unmetered internet charges by 17 per cent. Large telcos such as Cable & Wireless and Energis buy BT's wholesale... [21 Jul 2003]
Broadband boosts UK web use
News Billed or free access fell by 10 per cent to 41 per cent, while unmetered access remained almost unchanged at 36 per cent. A huge surge in the adoption of broadband led to a five per cent rise in the number of UK... [18 Jun 2003]
Cometa - Wi-Fi gold at the end of the rainbow?
Comment In Europe, for instance, the average unmetered access fee is over $100 a month, and that is accessing networks with few locations and little or no roaming. In the US, though, where networks and roaming are more... [18 Jun 2003]
UK businesses jump on the broadbandwagon
News A 50 per cent rise in broadband prices would see 86 per cent of business users move elsewhere - to ISDN, unmetered or metered dial-up - or simply stop using the web. Over a third of businesses with internet access expect... [14 May 2003]
UK playing catch-up in the global broadband league
News Britain came fifth out of seven in 'extensiveness', measured in terms of market context - how much competition broadband faces from services such as unmetered narrowband and digital TV - and availability, or coverage. [07 May 2003]