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Thread ID: 9346	2001-05-21 06:10:00	Is 0867 30000 dead?	Guest (0)	Press F1

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12967	2001-05-21 06:10:00	No matter when you try to call it its *always* busy. Thx Laura	Guest (0)
12968	2001-05-24 17:22:00	Laura, I downloaded this from the i4free site. There is no mention of a new dial-in number. The only number given is for the help desk. This is the end of the download. 'Friday April 20th 2001 From 20th April we will be updating and cleaning our customer database. As a result of this process, any accounts that have not been used to dial up i4free to access the Internet since 1st January 2001 will be disabled and deleted. This will delete all access to web mail for those accounts. This is to clear out incomplete, unused or inactive accounts. While i4free carries out this cleaning of its' database, we have temporarily suspended new registrations' Thanks The i4free team Joint i4free/Slingshot.co.nz Press Release Saturday January 6th 2001, Auckland In a surprise move, Clear advised just before Christmas that i4free could not rely on the continued revenue-sharing arrangement that had been planned by Clear's wholesale division as a replacement for the existing agreement which expires on 31 December 2000. 'We are very disappointed that after months of planning this with Clear, they would pull the plug with no warning, after secret discussions with Telecom that we were not party to' says i4free CEO Annette Presley. 'The government's recent decision on telecommunications reform validates our right to a share of the costs that Telecom saves by using our network. This deal between the large Carriers flies in the face of this.' continued Presley. i4free still believes all New Zealanders should have free Internet access as of right. 'While we cannot afford to continue to run an open-ended free service we will continue to run i4free with a smaller pool of access modems, and the i4free email addresses will be available through any other ISP'. i4free's sister company Attica Communications today launched an industry-leading premium ISP service called Slingshot.co.nz which offers very high quality unlimited Internet access for only $14.95 per month. i4free is recommending to its existing users that they sign up to the Slingshot service, which aims to never have a busy signal and offers a reliability guarantee. 'We want to ensure our 140,000 users can still get the best available options either with i4free or through Slingshot.co.nz' says Presley. Slingshot.co.nz will provide unlimited access, free home page hosting and up to seven free e-mail addresses and mailboxes for $14.95 per month. By over-provisioning modem pools and constantly monitoring all aspects of the service, Slingshot.co.nz expects that it should be able to ensure that users will never get a busy signal. The service has been engineered with the goal of providing the country's most reliable ISP service. Slingshot.co.nz will lead the industry by guaranteeing that e-mail downtime will be less than 60 minutes per quarter. It will also move to high performance Southern Cross international capacity to further improve international transfer rates - all for $10 per month less than the other large ISPs offer. i4free users upgrading to Slingshot.co.nz will still be able to use their i4free e-mail addresses if they wish or can have e-mail to their i4free mailboxes automatically forwarded to their new Slingshot.co.nz e-mail address. As part of the downscale in service, we will no longer be providing technical support for the i4free user base via email. For any future queries regarding your i4free account, please contact us on 0900 443 733 (calls will cost $2 per minute) between 7am and 11pm.'	Guest (0)
12969	2001-05-25 11:31:00	I think that would depend on where you are accessing it from and when you are trying to log on. I am currently logged on to it as I type this message. I4Free has downgraded it's performance and has lowered its Modem to user ratio, so it isn't actually a blistering speed service, and as I have mentioned above, your success signing in is dependant on a number of things. Another persons response was about the removal of users, don't worry about it, that has nothing to do with your problem. I4Free doesn't know where you are going to login from so would have a lot of difficulty giving you an engaged signal when you try to call :-)	Guest (0)
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