11 November 2002, 15:27, you wrote: DW> Not really - in the UK you can choose to pay-as-you-go with most ISPs, DW> so you can have accounts with as many ISPs as you wish.
But there must be a degree of inertia here that benefits the company supplying the computer and net connection. After all, if 99% of new computer users don't change their email prog from Outlook Express, I'm willing to bet that a very large proportion of users who have a working Internet set up on their machines don't even consider the alternatives. -- Clive Taylor Using The Bat! v1.61 ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
