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Jacalyn: Your report from "Dixons' freeserve out in front", I don't know what to make of the UK news system when it comes to reporting on the Internet. I make notes and copy some reports on x-stream from time to time. The number of subscribers they report on FreeServe is all over the place from the UK news system. One of your reports on (post 1037) from the Financial Times gave them 1.8 million customers. Most News reports say 1.5 and the Sunday Times from last week, I think it was, quoted FreeServe management as saying 1.2 million subscribers.!!! so what is it? Your report says x-stream is in the top 7 (there's a lot of doubles and triples there). I was reading from an AOL report just this weekend that they are in 2nd. place not 3rd., let alone 5 points behind.!! Most of the newspapers put x-stream in 3rd. place quoting 350,000 subscribers for a month now. I say it's more like 400,000. The last time I heard x-stream in 7th. place was a report from Canadian Market News last fall, from Oct. 21, 1998. The quote "Within 7 1/2 months of its launch the x-stream network, the UK's first FREE ISP, can now boast over 118,000 registered users making it the UK's 7th. largest Internet Service Provider. Not satisfied with this, x-stream has launched three new services: X-Streamail, X-Stream Central and X-Stream Games Network to bring added value to its loyal users. All services are FREE, true to x-stream's form". -- Does that mean all three has their own body of subscribers? Everyone knows X-Stream is a powerhouse and rated highly as an ISP in the UK - the first free Internet, e-mail,fax, voice-mail, phone, etc. not to mention x-stream's ownership of Nethead Web Productions. The company that won an award last year for the best web site in developing Virgin Radio plus they own G.O.D., Europe's premier web directory. And God knows what else. So their revenues come in all forms. |
