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Another extract Doug M ******************************************************************* ISPS <http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=FS&cat_id=22> ******************************************************************** Reuters: Free ISP Model Moves to Mainland Europe The free ISP model which has swept the UK off it's feet in the last five months has moved south to France. FreeUk has teamed up with a French provider, Clarinet France, to provide the wider Paris area with free Internet access. Plans are to roll the project out to the rest of France in the coming months but already there are 20,000 subscribers. Since April, France has seen five new free ISPs emerge, most offer 56k access, email or pop3 accounts. Many more offer full ISDN lines. The model works on the premise that the ISPs take a share of the profit generated from extra telephone calls. Internet charges in Europe are metered therefore profits are dependent on how long the user stays online. Freeserve, pioneer of the free ISP model, now have more than 1 million subscribers while their nearest rival, Demon, have 250,000. Freeserve have been critisised for bad performance and lack of technical support. Just last week some freeserve subscribers had outage for over 60 hours. Despite that, the model is set to sweep across Europe and will no doubt boost the amount of people online in Europe. <http://www.reuters.com>
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