Free ISPs in Europe,'how do-dey-do-dat'.
Pat:
Here is one of the free ISPs in UK who is cleaning AOL's cloak in the 'you got mail' crap,at least so far. The endgame is not here yet but may be close by.
Note they get a cut from the telecom on the local calls,make money from advertisements and e-commerce,works for me.
Next stop, free local calls in europe,don't belive what the subscription guys says about it at the end of the piece,they speak out fear of the unknown.
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...By all accounts, Freeserve has been an outstanding success. By scrapping subscriptions and relying instead on advertising, e-commerce and a slice of local phone charges for revenue, Freeserve overtook AOL as the U.K.'s largest ISP in a matter of 12 weeks.
Freeserve now has 1.5 million subscribers compared with AOL U.K.'s 600,000 subscribers. AOL Europe has about 2.6 million subscribers.
Needless to say, Freeserve's success has forced other ISPs in the U.K. to follow suit, and a majority of ISPs in the U.K. now offer free Internet access. AOL Europe, however, has insisted that with only 14% of Europe's households online and signs that the telcoms may begin offering free local calls to the Internet, the endgame is still some way off.
"One of the things we spend a lot of time thinking about is how ultimately all this will play out," Chris Hill, vice president of corporate development at AOL Europe, told investors at the conference.
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