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Do you really think that any company can keep running a money-losing free internet service for very long? It's one thing to run a Yahoo, with low overhead, where users have come in through some other ISP. And even there, Yahoo is losing money. It's another thing to provide all of the infrastructure, the modems, the leased lines, the service, etc, for free, hoping that ads will pay for it. I know they are doing it now, but for a small number of subscribers and with a loss-leader business model. I suspect that if they ever get up into the several millions of users, they will start charging. |
