NetZero and FreeDSL were supposedly supported by advertising revenues, then Juno purchased them and the advertising revenues took a long slide as more and more consumers learned not to click on the ads, and in fact learned to block most of them.
As for a national Dial-up service, NetZero is still a pretty good deal pricewise, but they do have competitors. ====================================== Stop spam on your domain, use our gateway! For hosting solutions http://www.clickdoug.com ISP rated: http://www.forta.com/cf/isp/isp.cfm?isp_id=772 ====================================== If you are not satisfied with my service, my job isn't done! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Dawson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 9:26 AM Subject: RE: The end of the free Internet | >>The internet has never been free, there have always been costs, you may | >>not have realized them, | REALLY? | | But there is (was) a business model to support a free for "consumers" | Internet service. It seems no one can support that model to make it work but | that makes me curious. | | I believe in free Internet. I am just not sure what the model is that will | make it work. | | Eric | | | From: "Nick McClure" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | To: CF-Community <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Subject: RE: The end of the free Internet | Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 10:08:18 -0400 | | The electricity, the tech support | | The internet has never been free, there have always been costs, you may not | have realized them, however you have always had to pay the phone company or | somebody else to provide the physical line. You have always had to pay the | electric company to power your computer. | | Your tax dollars pay for the internet access at the library. | | Nothing is ever free. If you don't pay for it directly, you still will | indirectly. | | > -----Original Message----- | > From: Heald, Tim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | > Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 9:59 AM | > To: CF-Community | > Subject: RE: The end of the free Internet | > | > How would you implement that exactly? Who would pay for the cable, | > routers, | > switches, firewalls, servers and everything else that goes into | > maintaining | > even the most basic connections? | > | > Timothy Heald | > Information Systems Specialist | > Overseas Security Advisory Council | > U.S. Department of State | > 571.345.2235 | > | > | > -----Original Message----- | > From: Eric Dawson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | > Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 9:47 AM | > To: CF-Community | > Subject: Re: The end of the free Internet | > | > | > I think the Internet should be free... | > | > Eric | > | | | | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.cfhosting.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
