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Microcap & Penny Stocks : XSNI - X-Stream Network -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jeffrey D who wrote (690)	5/16/1999 5:51:00 PM
From: UPTICK	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3519

XSNI....MORE NEWS X-Stream Technologies Saves Users Typical £150 Annual Subscription Funding Provided Through Discreet Screen Ads - London, 10th March 1998 - X-Stream Technologies Inc., a team of innovative Canadian software engineers, has developed a pioneering software package enabling users to access the Internet for free. X-Stream is offering a service based on its proprietary software that is completely funded by discreet banner adverts at the top of the user's screen. In order to use the service, users simply download software from X-Stream's Web site and complete an online form giving demographic information about themselves. They will then be given a phone number for his/her local point of presence (POP) which can be dialled immediately to gain free access to the Internet. The service, available now via x-stream.com, saves users a typical £150 annual subscription compared to one of the established UK ISPs. X-Stream Network users will also benefit from access to all the usual Internet facilities including a free email account. Chris Sukornyk, CEO of X-Stream, commented: "We aim to change the way in which users access the Internet. No-one wants to be tied into monthly payment for a service that they can now get free. We're able to offer a real service that provides a true alternative for users wanting to bypass the monthly fee set-up. And the quality of service will be identical if not superior to their current supplier - guaranteed." Research has shown that in the UK alone, over 1 million households currently access the Internet. The aggregate saving for this market alone could be in the region of £10,000,000 per month (based on a subscription cost of £10 per month). The service is funded through advertising. At all times while the user is connected to the Internet, the upper section of the screen will display a banner ad targeted specifically to suit the user's demographic profile. This banner takes up less than one-sixth of the screen. This enables the advertisers to maximise the potential benefit of their ads and receive real measurement as to how they are performing. There are links from each advert displayed to the advertiser's own Web site so that users may easily get more information about the products and services of interest. X-Stream anticipates that within 12 months of the launch there will be in excess of 65,000 active registered users - enabling the company to deliver approximately one billion advertising impressions to a highly targeted audience. Sukornyk added, "Our research has confirmed that banner ads do not affect the user experience, yet do bring major benefits to the advertiser." Advertising and Sponsorship Sales of all advertising space are handled in the UK by Global Online Directory Ltd. Demographic Targeting X-Stream specialises in delivering banner adverts for its clients that are demographically targeted. The form that users complete on entry to the site include details such as age, gender, income and interests. Reporting X-Stream provides constant online reports of how many users actually clicked through the banner advert to the web site, generating accurate viewing statistics. This enables advertisers to quickly amend adverts that are not reaching the desired audience. Ends-

To: Jeffrey D who wrote (690)	5/16/1999 5:54:00 PM
From: UPTICK	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3519

FREE INTERNET NEWS IN THE U.K. Free ISPs Spread from UK to France May 14, 1999 By Rick Mitchell France Correspondent International News Archives [Paris] The free-ISP phenomenon that ignited in the UK last year has spread to France. Five ISPs offering unlimited access at no charge have appeared since April, with another charging a token euro. Although it is unclear how they will earn a profit, several more free ISPs are in the works. Services and coverage vary widely. All the new providers offer such basics as 56K Paris access, and POP3 or Web e-mail. Most have newsgroup servers. Only two -- World Online, a subsidiary of the French company Bouygues and World Online International, and Liberty Surf -- have access throughout France. Five have ISDN, ranging from a basic 64kbps hookup to 256kbps at Freesurf, an offshoot of a British company. To configure, three require sending off for a CD; two set up by download, and one by phone help. World Online requires a credit card number, from which it collects a monthly euro. It will accept 200,000 one-year subscriptions, while Lokace Online, an Infonie project, plans to take on 250,000. The rest state no limits. For now, only Free.Fr, part of the French telematics group Iliad, and Liberty Surf, will host home pages. In France, as in most of Europe, the high cost of access presents the biggest barrier to surfing. Tacked on to monthly ISP subscriptions from FF55 (US$9.20) to more than FF1,000, local telephone connections cost 7-28 centimes (1.2 to 4.7 US cents) per minute, depending on time of day. Cable access is scattered and of low-quality. Consequently, free ISPs should catch on fast. The question is: how will they make money? About 70 of the UK's 300 ISPs are free. A big reason is that British phone companies pay ISPs a portion of the local call revenue they generate (up to 1.7 US cents per minute). France Telecom, facing no local-call competition, has avoided this arrangement, citing an already tight margin and the up-to-50 percent discounts it gives surfers on ISP connections. But with French Internet use accounting for about 20 percent of all call traffic and expected to rise to 50 percent in three years, the operator is reportedly negotiating a compromise: for standard, fee-based access, it would not make payments to providers, while users would continue to get Primaliste Internet discounts. Free ISPs would receive a modest slice of call revenue, with connections going through a separate network not covered by Primaliste. Analysts said it's unclear what this will mean to ISPs. Meanwhile, free providers look to advertising and e-commerce to pay the bills. Surfers must connect via portals festooned with ads targeted with information they provide when registering. British company Kingfisher, which owns Liberty Surf with LVMH, is distributing the offer through Darty, its electronics/home-appliance chain, which will sell merchandise via the portal. VNU, Europe's top computer publishing group, is using VNUnet Online to promote publications such as NetWork News and SVM Achat. The group hired Internet Telecom to create its service. That new company is developing access services for other large French retailer and media clients

To: Jeffrey D who wrote (690)	5/16/1999 6:11:00 PM
From: Suntrader	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3519

Jeffrey, The BB listing was not a mistake, it was planned. ST

To: Jeffrey D who wrote (690)	5/16/1999 6:47:00 PM
From: donkeyman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3519

Jeff, You quoted Mr. Pink earlier. What I most remember most about Mr. Pink was when BID.COM was $3.00/sh he said don't touch it with a 10 ft. pole. A short time later BID.COM was $33.00/sh.---As far as Mr. Baker goes he gave the impression if a stock jumps up 50% or 100% sell it. I was talking to a guy recently who followed that logic on American Online plus Ebay. Imagine when Ebay doubled from $27 to $54 and you sold out. Last month EBAY was $1000/share. He's another winner! I notice being 1st. in free Internet for XSNI didn't mean too much to Mr. Baker.!!!