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| Thread ID: 56446 | 2005-04-05 00:59:00 | Gmail now at 2058Mb and still counting... | vinref (6194) | PC World Chat |
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| 341770 | 2005-04-05 00:59:00 | I am now using a whopping 1%! Just thinking - apart from my (el-cheapo) hardware and (el-cheapo) internet access, everything else computer-related I use is free. OS, apps, email...it's all good! And more thinking: can anyone think of any possible scenario where access to the internet will ever become free (legally)? Will there ever be a way for someone to make money by providing free internet access? |
vinref (6194) | ||
| 341771 | 2005-04-05 01:17:00 | See: Zfree etc BTW - There's already been a thread about Gmail ;) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 341772 | 2005-04-05 01:24:00 | There was a way for people to make money by providing free internet access. Sadly those days are now gone. | Jeremy (1197) | ||
| 341773 | 2005-04-05 05:46:00 | There was never "a way to make money by providing free internet access". It was part of the "new economics", in which the measure of your success was the "burn rate": how much money you could spend without getting any income. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 341774 | 2005-04-05 07:45:00 | Actually, I wonder why is it that yesterday night I saw that it is 2058MB and still counting, then this morning it is still counting from 2058!? What is happening, anyway? Cheers :) | Renmoo (66) | ||
| 341775 | 2005-04-05 08:31:00 | There was a way for people to make money by providing free internet access. Sadly those days are now gone. I was thinking more in the way that Yahoo, Google etc provide something for free but they make money indirectly through advertising. Lots of retailers here (Starbucks, McDonalds, Coffee Clubs etc) offer wireless internet for free when you buy such and such product. |
vinref (6194) | ||
| 341776 | 2005-04-05 09:42:00 | I'm pretty sure they were making money at the time. It was working because of the termination charges. Call being made from a Telecom line and ending up at a Clear line or vice versa. At the time the majority of users were with Telecom, so they'd dial up to their free dial up provider (freenet, i4free, zfree) which were using Clear lines. Telecom had to cough up money to Clear. 2c per minute I believe was the fee. | Jeremy (1197) | ||
| 341777 | 2005-04-06 03:07:00 | But there is still no "free". The money has to come from somewhere. How much does a cup of coffee cost? We can't all make millions helping in the transfer of Nigerian money and then altruistically provide free Internet access to the world. ;) |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 341778 | 2005-04-06 08:15:00 | But there is still no "free" . The money has to come from somewhere . How much does a cup of coffee cost? We can't all make millions helping in the transfer of Nigerian money and then altruistically provide free Internet access to the world . ;) Well, the coffee, cake and something else has to come to about $6 in one cafe, to be able to use the wireless internet for as long as it takes you to consume the said fare I suppose . But everything costs the same even if you don't use the wireless internet access, so it is "free" in a sense, although everyone is subsidising it . |
vinref (6194) | ||
| 341779 | 2005-04-07 01:57:00 | So it's freeloading. ;) | Graham L (2) | ||
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