LineOne
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LineOne was an
As of October 2017, the "lineone.net" domain is still active for email (username@lineone.net) and website hosting (website.lineone.net/~username). More recently (October 2019), TalkTalk has notified LineOne customers that from 10 December 2019, unless they pay £5 per month or £50 per year or sign up to the TalkTalk broadband service, they will lose most Talk Talk features, will only have access to their mails through webmail and will start closing down free e-mail accounts.
History
Before LineOne was launched in 1997 as a joint venture between
The official LineOne launch coincided with the publication of the 1997 Sunday Times 'Rich List'. The set up software was given away free with each copy of that weekend's Sunday Times. At this time the Helpdesk was run by BT from their office in Colindale, North London.
In 1998,
LineOne offered customers 0845 (Local Rate) access to the Internet (which required a monthly subscription) as well as offering e-mail and web hosting services, which were included in the subscription fee.
Freeserve launched in 1998, and was the first major ISP to offer a subscription free dialup service that only charged the standard per minute local call rate for access. LineOne was forced to follow suit with the same service to stem the flow of dialup customers and pressured BT into providing the infrastructure, which it did so and at considerable expense to LineOne.
From LineOne to Tiscali
In March 1999,
LineOne was then put up for sale after it became obvious that everyone involved was not going to make the hundreds of millions of pounds that LineOne was originally valued at in the middle of the
It was rumoured that before this sale, another large telecommunications giant had offered three to four times as much a year earlier and that by holding out for more money, the LineOne management missed the boat.
At the time of acquisition, LineOne had 1.85 million subscribers, though the number of active users was probably around the 800,000 mark at the time.
In June 2009, The UK operations of
References
- ^ BT and United News & Media put LineOne ISP up for sale[dead link] By Bill McIntosh, The Independent, 1 December 2000
- ^ bosses to head Tiscali's UK ISP[permanent dead link], Tim Richardson , The Register, 15 May 2001
- ^ UPDATE 1-Carphone wins EU approval for Tiscali UK buy Reuters. 30 June 2009
- ^ - Completion of Tiscali Acquisition[permanent dead link] accessed Feb 2010
External links
- Review of lineone.net at Robtex, accessed February 2010.