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ISP offers free PCs to subscribers
News While Empire.net appears to be the first ISP to give away PCs to subscribers, other ISPs have offered free services to subscribers, though that has seemed more popular in Britain than in the US. That's the deal a New Hampshire ISP is offering.
[February 18, 1999, 9:21]
U.K. ISP 'pays' users to sign up for free
News Taking a timely swipe at Dixon's Freeserve flotation plans, Hague Limited, the holding company for ISP themutual.net will put 50 per cent of the businesses up for grabs when it launches the service in July.
[June 9, 1999, 7:09]
American Express toys with free ISP
News If American Express cannot tie new revenue streams directly to the free ISP service that will help it cover the costs.you might find that the company will pull back on this initiative," said Emily Meehan, senior analyst at The Yankee Group.
[February 9, 2001, 8:30]
Climb aboard the free ISP bandwagon!
News And although BT played down speculation about LineOne going the free ISP route, a source close to the company said "it's in the pipeline". BT had high hopes for the venture but saw its membership stagnate while newcomers, such as Dixons, stole the...
[February 9, 1999, 16:08]
A Year Ago: Climb aboard the free ISP bandwagon!
News And although BT played down speculation about LineOne going the free ISP route, a source close to the company said "it's in the pipeline". BT had high hopes for the venture but saw its membership stagnate while newcomers, such as Dixons, stole the...
[February 9, 2000, 6:02]
Dixons launches free ISP service
News Yet another ISP has been launched in the UK. According to the firm comparable ISP offerings cost around £12/month, costing the 1.16 million online UK households around £165m a year. This time the UK's largest electrical retailer, Dixons, has joined...
[September 22, 1998, 11:48]
Wireless ISP offers free broadband trial
News The ISP will give a free one-month trial to any consumer or business that is based in one of nine areas across England -- Bath, Basingstoke, Birmingham, Bristol, Crystal Palace, Guildford, Sheffield, Slough and Uxbridge.
[February 1, 2002, 16:18]
AOL to close 'free' ISP
News But now the company has decided to phase out its subscription-free ISP, following a growing UK preference for unmetered services. AOL refused to confirm the number of Netscape Online customers that will be affected, but Peacock suggested that the...
[September 11, 2001, 10:57]
Netscape to launch free ISP Tuesday
News US browser and portal leviathan Netscape will announce its arrival in the European ISP market Tuesday with the British launch of a free Internet access and content service, Netscape Online. AOL, which purchased Netscape late last year, is the world...
[August 23, 1999, 15:10]
Fonedata launches free wireless ISP
News WAPfone provides a gateway that enables access to online WAP content, independent of the UK's four major mobile networks. The service allows owners of WAP enabled devices to access dedicated WAP sites via a dial-up connection.
[January 12, 2000, 9:52]
Another, er totally free ISP... sort of
News As with virtually all of these offers however, the precise definition of "free" seems to be a tenuous one. With Stray Duck users will indeed get free telephone access to the Net access and will not even have to pay a subscription charge.
[October 28, 1999, 11:02]
BT to woo businesses with new free ISP
News British telecoms giant BT hopes to up-the-ante once again in the "free" Internet stakes by bringing free Net access to the business community. The new service, called BT Access, will provide businesses with 56kbit/s Internet access, 20MB of Web...
[September 29, 1999, 10:29]
AOL resists free ISP trend
News Despite the success of free Internet services like Freeserve, AOL remains sceptical the business model can work. Free ISPs may be gathering lots of members, but there is no evidence they are gathering revenue," an AOL spokeswoman said.
[February 11, 1999, 13:04]
UK's first Linux dedicated free ISP to go live
News The UK's first Linux dedicated non-subscription ISP will be launched within the next two weeks by UKLinux.net with all profits going to the open source foundation, according to a reseller at this year's IT Forum show at Olympia.
[October 28, 1999, 14:11]
X-Streamly free Internet meets lukewarm reception
News Free ISP X-Stream introduced 24-hour, 7 day a week free Internet access Friday, warning users the service was a trial and they might not always get online. X-Stream is the second ISP to introduce such an offer in the UK.
[December 13, 1999, 11:40]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News Rumours abound that Tempo (Dixons' wannabies) are about to launch a free ISP. Second, if they can make it work, what on earth is going to stop everyone on a free ISP (I estimate that's around 2 million at the moment) from switching over?
[April 30, 1999, 21:41]
A new twist on free ISPs
News The company owns the second biggest free Internet service provider (ISP), 1stUp.com, with two million plus members; only NetZero, at three million subscribers, is larger. This stands in stark contrast to NetZero's pure, ad-based free ISP model...
[March 16, 2000, 13:44]
The Day Ahead: NetZero has cash, no outlook
News Commentary: NetZero has more than eight quarters of cash left, financial discipline and the ability to outlast its free ISP competition. But is being the last free ISP standing a goal worth pursuing? Simply put, investing in any ISP not named AOL...
[November 2, 2000, 12:06]
Freebeeb.net delivers through Post Office
News Freebeeb.net, the controversial free ISP from the BBC, is teaming up with the Post Office to get the message out. It is the first time the Post Office has partnered with an ISP in such a deal. We have started with one [ISP] that was right for us...
[September 7, 1999, 11:18]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Rumours abound that Tempo (Dixons' wannabies) are about to launch a free ISP. Second, if they can make it work, what on earth is going to stop everyone on a free ISP (I estimate that's around 2 million at the moment) from switching over?
[April 30, 1999, 22:41]
