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Freeserve is to change its name to Wanadoo, the internet services brand of parent company France Telecom, and £20m will be spent on advertising the change. 02-Apr-2004 Freeserve is considering plans to relocate its broadband internet operations to Madeira, in order to escape the UK's higher VAT rate. 17-Mar-2003 Freeserve, the internet service provider, is considering plans to relocate its headquarters to a new 70,000 sq ft office in Hemel Hemstead. 12-Aug-2002 Freeserve is planning to relocate its AnyTime unmetered internet access service to Madeira, in order to avoid the higher VAT rates payable in the UK. 29-Jul-2002 Freeserve, the internet service provider 80% owned by Dixons, has been acquired by the Wanadoo division of France Telecom for £1.6bn. 07-Dec-2000 Freeserve has announced a £4.5m alliance with NetCall and TelePost to develop new value-added voice and data services, such as web-based voice conferencing. 14-Apr-2000 Barclays and Freeserve are forming a £20m joint venture to develop a web portal for small businesses, and Barclays will switch its own-brand internet access service from British Telecom to Freeserve. 28-Mar-2000 Freeserve is to acquire SmartGroups.com, the creator of web-based communities, for up to £60m in new shares, in order to provide new advertising and e-commerce opportunities. 17-Mar-2000 Freeserve is forming an alliance with BT Cellnet to provide internet-based information services on mobile phones, including sport, entertainment and financial services. 03-Dec-1999 Freeserve is in merger talks with several other internet service providers, and predicts that the number of free ISPs will fall from 250 to about 6 over the next few years. 30-Nov-1999 Freeserve is to increase its stake in TelePost, the US telephony group, to 57% at a cost of £12m, in order to offer new messaging services to its customers. 25-Nov-1999
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