Uk Free Isp Calls Case Closed
Martin Burns
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User since: 26 Apr 1999
Articles written: 143
Following BT's
announcement, Telewest, the UK's biggest cable player, has also announced free calls to their ISP.
While you will be restricted to their ISP and their phone service, Telewest have not made their
announcement conditional to approvel from Oftel (the UK's telecoms regulator) before they launch. They have also committed to a date - 14th Feb. Best of all, I'm a Telewest customer *superhappyfundance*.
Given that the two biggest players in the domestic market intend to go free, the rest of the market will have to follow.
Case closed. Roll on ADSL & Cable Modems.
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?
