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To: Stan Standridge who started this subject8/31/2000 10:37:18 AM
From: rupert1  Read Replies (1) of 97611
 
UK News

Alta Vista

I reported long time ago that Alta Vista made a huge splash in Britain that was first item of the mainstream news in all the media for an entire day when it announced. It was to offer free telephone connections to the internet. It's announcement caused a flurry of competitive announcements by other portals. It said the service would be in operation in x months.

Anyway, this last week, when challenged, Alta Vista was forced to admit that it is not going ahead with the plan because the economics don't work - Brit Telephone will not sell access cheaply enough. BT has denied this and pointed out that other portals are making it work (I use one myself).

Alta Vista has been heavily criticised (also in the mainstream media) for failing to announce this change in policy and for not informing the thousands of people who signed up because of the promise of free connections.

I have not looked into it, but perhaps this is one of the effects of CMGI starting to attend to the profitability of its component pieces.

COMPAQ

One potential piece of good news for CPQ from the UK is that it is part of the consortium that looks like it might win the franchise for the Natiohal Lottery, the biggest in the world. The current licensees have fallen into disfavour because of their reliance on a US company with questionable practices. COMPAQ is part of The Peoples Lottery bid headed by Richard Branson of Virgin. I think CPQ will supply servers and other hardware. There are also about 40,000 computers to be supplied to retailers but I think they are specialised non-cpq machines. They would link into the COMPAQ servers. The winner of the competition will start next year.
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