Bt To Offer Flat Rate Calls For The Uk
Martin Burns
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British Telecom is to introduce a new tariff structure which will allow ISPs to offer unmetered PoPs.
The new tariff is to be introduced next month, but it will be up to ISPs to offer it to Internet users. At present, ISPs are substantially funded by a share of the call revenues generated by calls to their PoPs.
Meanwhile, more ISPs have announced UK free call services, including CallNet 0800. See the CUT announcement for more information and comment.
Martin Burns has been doing this stuff since Netscape 1.0 days. Starting with the communication ends that online media support, he moved back through design, HTML and server-side code. Then he got into running the whole show. These days he's working for these people as a Project Manager, and still thinks (nearly 6 years on) it's a hell of a lot better than working for a dot-com. In his Copious Free Time™, he helps out running a Cloth Nappies online store.
Amongst his favourite things is Zope
He's been a member of evolt.org since the very early days, a board member, a president, a writer and even contributed a modest amount of template code for the current site. Above all, he likes evolt.org to do things because it knowingly chooses to do so, rather than randomly stumbling into them. He's also one of the boys and girls who beervolts in the UK, although the arrival of small children in his life have knocked the frequency for 6.
Most likely to ask: Why would a client pay you to do that?
Least likely to ask: Why isn't that navigation frame in Flash?
