22nd October 2000 Archive
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Surfers pay millions for BT billing cock-up
Even though BT admits fault
Thousands of British surfers browsed the Net for "free" for six months, thanks to a BT computer cock-up. Now BT wants its money back - the bill to surfers could run into millions of pounds. The increasingly accident-prone telco has sent backdated bills to 'tens of thousands' (they dialed up the Internet using an 0845 number and …
Music and Media 22 Oct 2000, 21:08
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Logical pulls plug on IPO
And other channel flannel
Logical, the networking reseller bit of South African IT group Datatec, has pulled its IPO just weeks before it was due to float on the London Stock Exchange.The company with sales of £364 million in 1999 was expected to carry a market cap of £1.5 billion, according to the Sunday Times. Market conditions are blamed. Merisel …
Business 22 Oct 2000, 21:36
