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Paul Weaver wrote: > > >urm, well I know it's not running atm but what about services like when ic24 > >offered an 0800 number???? > > > Presumably they were funded from a monthly fee (like net in a nushell && AOL), > or by dumb venture capitalists and had no sustainable income. At 50p a minute technical support, perhaps they were sustained by gullible users, and Mirror readers. All the totally free ISPs went, or never started, as in the case of Altavista's ISP service, AFAIK. Running a large ISP business need not be expensive, but no one really succeeded (yet!) with the advertising based model for ISP's. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.