Re: UKNM: freeserve numbers - comments anyone?

[Stefan Magdalinski]

Mike Butcher wrote:

> 

> It just goes to show what a barrier the issue of cost has been to the

> development of the consumer market in the UK. But I dispute the 10% figure

> - that looks like home users only. Still, it's an amazing achievement -

> especially when you consider AOL hit 500,000 only the other day, and after

> about 2 years of plugging away.


Yeah, and have you ever managed to get anyone from AOL to tell you how

many paying (as opposed to freebie-surfing) customers they have? One

thing for demon, their figures seem to be considerably more honest. 


stefan


> The great thing is that apart from attracting some people from other ISPs,

> Freeserve actually appears to be expanding the market.

> 

> An interesting model is the free-to-use, entirely ad-supported ISP. check

> out http://www.netzero.com in the States.

> 

> Mike


-- 

/**

Stefan Magdalinski                            0370 67 70 58

stefanisness [dot] org

                             icq: 5261825  

isness schmisness...                                   **/

********************

UKNM is sponsored by Excite UK, visit us at http://www.excite.co.uk.

Email Khalil Ibrahimi

khalilexcitecorp [dot] com (mailto:khalilexcitecorp [dot] com)

 to advertise on Excite.

********************

Change your UKNM subscription use http://www.chinwag.com/uknm.html