Brett Allan King

In the aftermath of this month’s liberalization of the telecommunications industry, new companies are engaged in a price war that may translate to cheaper Net access. Retevision, which offers its Iddeo Internet service, launched the price war by offering clients local rates 9.3 percent cheaper than those of Telefonica, Spain’s largest operator and former monopoly. […]

At the doorstep of next week’s telecommunications privatization, Spanish Net users scramble for alternatives to InfoVia, their universal Internet access ramp. Telefonica de Espaa will suspend this service at midnight, Dec. 1. This complies with the March 12 decision by Spain’s Telecommunications Market Commission to officially liberalize the sector on that date. InfoVia started as […]

E-commerce was the order of the day at Spain’s computer, multimedia and telecommunications fair, with global digerati debating the future of Net-based business. In addition to technical seminars on Net commerce, this year’s SIMO TCI fair played host to the CommerceNet ’98 Global Summit. International delegates gathered for CN’s first-ever European meeting to compare notes […]

Spanish commerce has taken a united leap across electronic trade barriers with a consolidated digital certification system that promises secure virtual trade “at the world level.” Spanish banks began issuing digital certificates from the Agencia de Certificacion Electronica (ACE) last week, making the company among the first in the world to unite national electronic payment […]

UK telecom company Telinco has teamed with water utility Severn Trent Plc to offer low-cost telephone calls and free Internet access to Severn Trent’s 13,000 UK employees and pensioners. Users will also get a free phone number, discounted national and international calls, voicemail and a personal number. “A key part of our business development strategy […]

After a 12-month beta test, the world’s largest online service, America Online, is expected to make a splash in the Australian market, where 970,000 households are serviced by more than 600 ISPs. In almost every other market where it has launched, AOL has quickly become one of the top two Internet providers. AOL will go […]