Re: UKNM: freeserve numbers - comments anyone?

[Mike Butcher]

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.


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


>Over 40 per cent of Freeserve's customers are new to the Internet,

> logging on for the first time with Freeserve. Freeserve estimates that

> this represents an increase of more than 10 per cent in the number of

> people online in the UK (**).


>(**) Total number of UK dial-up accounts estimated to be approx 1.8

>million.

>[...]


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