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ISPs told 'Free' must mean free
News ISPs have been warned that "Free" must mean free by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) and that promotional material must be clear about the availability of services. The advertising watchdog criticises ISPs for misleading consumers with...
[September 13, 2000, 7:48]
US Report: ISPs may offer free PCs
News Seeing a chance to get customers on board, other ISPs are clamouring to do deals with PC makers. Someday you may get a free PC with two years of Internet service -- kind of like the cellular phone model," said Steve Dukkar, president and CEO of...
[October 30, 1998, 10:24]
Jupiter predicts free ISPs to take off in US
News Up to 8.8 million US online households are expected to turn to free access ISPs by 2003 according to a report from research firm Jupiter Monday. While the free access model is threatened in the UK by BT's decision to introduce unmetered access...
[December 8, 1999, 7:00]
A new twist on free ISPs
News For many ISPs, these heavyweights are the competition. Still, small ISPs aren't overly concerned about the keiretsu model. The company owns the second biggest free Internet service provider (ISP), 1stUp.com, with two million plus members; only...
[March 16, 2000, 13:44]
Lonely free ISPs agree to marriage
News The two companies, along with Kmart's BlueLight.com, represent the last of the big free ISPs that swept onto the Net beginning in 1999. Free Internet service providers NetZero and Juno Online Services said on Thursday that they have agreed to merge...
[June 8, 2001, 14:36]
Unmetered access to shake up free ISPs
News The move to introduce a flat-rate charge for Internet calls could mean trouble for Britain's most significant foray into the Internet, namely free ISPs, of which Freeserve is the largest. A spokesman for screaming.net -- a free ISPs which offers...
[December 8, 1999, 10:58]
Amnesty: ISPs must protect free speech
News The human rights group Amnesty International has called on internet service providers to do more to protect free speech online. Some governments fear the spread of information, the free exchange of ideas and independent expression.
[February 19, 2007, 12:15]
US Report: Can free-access ISPs defy gravity?
News Other attempts at free Net access have included J3, a long-distance telecommunications provider in Dover, Delaware; CyberFreeway, based in Silicon Valley; and X-Stream Network, based in the UK. Free Web services are ubiquitous online, and although...
[October 29, 1998, 9:55]
Are virus killers next step in ISP wars?
News Britain's top subscription-charging ISPs are looking into a new service to lure consumers away from the free competition: protection from viruses, spam and even pornography. The notable absence of any of the UK's free ISPs from the briefing means...
[November 25, 1999, 16:18]
A Year Ago: Freeserve clocks up 900,000 members
News Launched in September 1998 by Dixons group, Freeserve is one of nine new free ISPs in the UK. We seem to have a new economic model on our hands and it could be other ISPs will offer free access too. Proving that the free model works, Dixons' five...
[January 13, 2000, 5:50]
Consumers want flat-rate ISPs - report
News The Internet user profile survey -- conducted by NOP -- found that most users would abandon free access ISPs in favour of subscription-based services if they were offered unlimited Internet access for a fixed fee.consumers took part in the survey.
[February 25, 2000, 6:30]
AOL and Freeserve draw battle lines
News Since the arrival of Freeserve over 200 free access ISPs have launched here with the maverick business model copied across Europe. Most free ISPs won't be around in a year or two. The battle of the ISPs was played out this week, as AOL and...
[October 21, 1999, 12:43]
Freeserve clocks up 900,000 members
News Launched in September 1998 by Dixons group, Freeserve is one of nine new free ISPs in the UK. We seem to have a new economic model on our hands and it could be other ISPs will offer free access too. Freeserve, the UK's fastest growing ISP has...
[January 13, 1999, 14:44]
The Day Ahead: NetZero has cash, no outlook
News Common sense dictates that free ISPs will be bad investments. Big-name ISPs that actually charge folks are also struggling. Commentary: NetZero has more than eight quarters of cash left, financial discipline and the ability to outlast its free ISP...
[November 2, 2000, 12:06]
Tesco abolishes Net charges
News But with the growing trend towards free Web access, Tesco hopes to boost its 17,000 subscriber base by offering free connections to its 10 million Clubcard holders -- a move that could make it one of the biggest ISPs in the UK.
[February 1, 1999, 13:18]
AOL Time Warner puts pressure on European ISPs
News He says: "AOL has been losing market share with regard to the competition, especially free ISPs. Should Europe's domestic ISPs be quaking in their boots at the prospect of AOL and Time Warner joining forces to become the world's first "company for...
[January 10, 2000, 17:30]
Jane Wakefield: The day the Internet went free
News Waving an Internet pistol filled with free bullets, it woke the sleepy ISPs out of their pay-per-minute reverie to fire the biggest blast at access since Freeserve took away subscription fees. If the Freeserve model is about to bite the dust and...
[March 7, 2000, 16:11]
ISPs raise the stakes on DDoS attacks
News Why should ISPs do something? We get put into this position that ISPs should do more to promote anti-spam and antivirus," said Starnes. Earlier this month Richard Clarke, the former cybersecurity advisor to the White House, called for ISPs to do...
[November 30, 2004, 11:45]
Predicts 98+: Free Internet services if German business model is adopted
News At the Predicts 98+ conference in Paris yesterday, Gartner analysts told delegates they should be enjoying cheap or even free Internet access within the next few years if Internet service providers (ISPs) adopt German business models.
[April 21, 1998, 10:55]
LineOne fails, what future for unmetered?
News Following ntl's "Free Internet" announcement back in March, many ISPs had to decide whether to go with the untested unmetered business model or face losing thousands of customers. Gartner Group analyst Adam Daum says users can look forward to...
[July 17, 2000, 12:09]
