AOL UK To Roll Out AOL FLAT RATE, Ground-breaking Unmetered Internet Access Pricing.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 19, 2000 Will offer current members a flat-rate monthly fee of just [pound]14.99, including all Internet telephone charges, for AOL's unmatched value, ease-of-use and convenience with no unwieldy contracts or hidden charges AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. UK will roll out flat-rate pricing in stages, starting with longest-standing AOL members AOL UK today announced the roll-out of its ground-breaking AOL FLAT RATE pricing plan that will provide its members with unmetered access to the UK's leading subscription Internet service for a flat-rate monthly fee of just [pound]14.99, including all subscription and Internet telephone costs, together with unlimited freephone member support. The unmetered pricing plan will offer members flat-rate access to AOL's unmatched value, ease-of-use and convenience - including world-class content, global community, family-friendly parental controls This article is about computer options. For the television show, see Parental Control (TV series). Parental controls are options, typically included in digital television services, computer and video games, or computer software used to access the Internet, that and leading-edge infrastructure - without imposing hidden charges, unwieldy contracts or the need to change telephone provider. Combined with AOL's reaffirmation of its principle of freephone member support, AOL members will have peace of mind to make the fullest use of the service for one low price, with no unanticipated costs. In a roll-out schedule designed to maintain a reliable unmetered online experience for members, the AOL FLAT RATE plan will be made available in stages: - AOL FLAT RATE will be offered first to the existing AOL membership base, beginning today. Members will become eligible for the [pound]14.99 plan depending on the length of time they have been with the AOL service. AOL's longest-standing customers will immediately be able to switch to unmetered access, effective from their next monthly billing date, to be followed in subsequent weeks by others who have joined the service prior to 19 September. - AOL UK anticipates making this flat-rate plan available to all UK consumers as soon as possible after its roll-out to members, as telecommunications providers accelerate the rapid buildout The construction and implementation of a system. For example, "network buildout" implies constructing the network and going online. of unmetered network access across the UK. - AOL UK is also offering a completely free trial of the AOL service to consumers who join AOL after 19 September, 2000. This plan will waive the first-month subscription fee and give up to 24 hours of usage with absolutely no subscription or Internet telephone charges. After the free-trial month, new members will enjoy the popular 'AOL Off-Peak, All the Time' rate of [pound]9.99 a month plus 1p per minute, 24 hours a day, until network buildout allows AOL FLAT RATE to be available to them. AOL UK Managing Director Karen Thomson, said: "Our ground-breaking new unmetered price plan is a watershed event for consumers that will transform the interactive medium into a true mass-market phenomenon in the UK. We promised more than a year ago that we would fight to 'Stop The Clock' of metered Internet telephone costs charged by the minute. We are now delighted to give our members what they want - genuine and sustainable flat-rate Internet access See how to access the Internet. ." Ms.Thomson continued: "AOL FLAT RATE reflects a fair, responsible and realistic approach to unmetered access: to reward our current members' loyalty, we will roll out flat-rate pricing to our longest-standing members first, and then make it available to all our members in the following weeks. And we have something for other UK consumers as well: to introduce AOL's unmatched value, ease-of-use and convenience, we will be offering them our unique and completely free 24-hour trial. We will work to offer these new members AOL FLAT RATE in the near future, as the UK's telecommunications providers bring more and more flat-rate network capacity online in the coming weeks." For the last 18 months, AOL UK has been leading the campaign for the right of UK consumers to experience the same kind of unmetered Internet access enjoyed by tens of millions of consumers in the US. The AOL UK 'Stop the Clock' campaign began to bear fruit in May when the UK regulator, OFTEL Oftel n (BRIT) (= Office of Telecommunications) → organismo que controla las telecomunicaciones británicas Oftel n abbr (Brit) (= Office of Telecommunications) → , forced British Telecom The telephone and communications carrier that provides services in Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It used to be a division of the British Post Office, but was privatized in 1984 under Margaret Thatcher's administration. to begin offering a wholesale flat-rate tariff to its telecoms competitors. That tariff, known as Flat Rate Internet Access Call Origination Call Origination, also known as voice origination, refers to the collecting of the calls initiated by a calling party on a telephone exchange of PSTN, and handing off the calls to a VoIP endpoint or to another exchange or telephone company for completion to a called party. (FRIACO FRIACO Flat Rate Internet Access Call Origination (UK) ), was devised by economists commissioned by AOL UK in the Spring of 1999. The regulator mandated that BT should offer this flat-rate tariff after reviewing a formal complaint from the telecommunications operator MCI (1) (Media Control Interface) A high-level programming interface from Microsoft and IBM for controlling multimedia devices. It provides commands and functions to open, play and close the device. (2) (Microwave Communications Inc. Worldcom last December. Although FRIACO-based, flat-rate Internet access tariffs are only now being made available to Internet Service Providers Internet service provider (ISP) Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password. , AOL UK believes the pace of that roll-out is set to accelerate in the coming weeks. About AOL UK AOL UK is the UK's leading interactive services provider and a division of AOL Europe, Europe's leading multinational Internet, online and e-commerce services provider. Through its successful multiple-brand strategy, AOL Europe operates the leading AOL, CompuServe and Netscape Online services, AOL Instant Messenger See AIM. , AOL and CompuServe portals in nine countries and four languages across Europe. AOL is the service for the whole family, providing its members with interactive education, entertainment, financial and information content while giving access to a global online community. CompuServe is aimed at the corporate customer and 'new professional' user offering specialised information, large-scale databases, matchless forums and professional communication tools. Netscape Online, AOL UK's subscription-free online service, is targeted at the UK 'value' sector and provides pure, high-performance Internet access. As part of its AOL Anywhere strategy, AOL Europe has announced a number of alliances with technology manufacturers and mobile network operators, to extend its world-class content, community and hallmark ease of use to the mobile platform. From the first service launch in 1995, AOL Europe's multiple brands now reach more than 4 million households across Europe. About America Online See AOL. , Inc. Founded in 1985, America Online, Inc., based in Dulles, Virginia Dulles, Virginia is an unincorporated census-designated place located in Loudoun County, Virginia, part of the Washington Metropolitan Area. The headquarters of AOL, Orbital Sciences Corporation and ODIN technologies and the former headquarters of MCI Inc. are located in Dulles. , is the world's leader in interactive services, Web brands, Internet technologies and e-commerce services. America Online, Inc. operates: two worldwide Internet services, America Online, with more than 24 million members, and CompuServe, with more than 2.8 million members; several leading Internet brands including ICQ ("I Seek You") A conferencing program for the Internet from Mirabilis, Tel Aviv, Israel (www.icq.com). It provides interactive chat, e-mail and file transfer and can alert you when someone on your predefined list has also come online. , AOL Instant Messenger and Digital City, Inc.; the Netscape Netcenter and AOL.COM portals; the Netscape Navigator An earlier Web browser for Windows, Macintosh and X Windows from Netscape that provided secure transmission over the Internet. Soon after its introduction in 1994, Navigator, or just "Netscape," as it was commonly called, quickly became the leading browser on the Web. and Communicator browsers; MapQuest.com (1) (Computer Output Microfilm) Creating microfilm or microfiche from the computer. A COM machine receives print-image output from the computer either online or via tape or disk and creates a film image of each page. , the leader in providing online, voice and wireless mapping, directions and destination information solutions to businesses and consumers; AOL Moviefone, the nation's #1 movie listing guide and ticketing service; and Spinner.com and NullSoft's Winamp, leaders in Internet music. Through its strategic alliance with Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. , the company develops and offers easy-to-deploy, end-to-end e-commerce and enterprise solutions for companies operating in the Net Economy. |
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