No free lunch?

[Steve]

Liz Enbysk, Managing Editor
ZDNet AnchorDesk 10/29/98


News flash -- there's no such thing as a free lunch! Launched in
January 1997, Internet service provider @bigger.net promised
subscribers a lifetime of Internet access for a onetime $59 fee.

Sound too good to be true? It was. @bigger.net has gone belly up --
leaving 40,000 Bay-area customers in the lurch. 

Many ISPs have tried -- and failed -- to figure out how to offer
no-fee Internet access. (@bigger.net proposed an advertising-funded
system.) One day, no-fee ISPs will abound. But until then, expect
several companies to die while figuring out a viable business model.
"Free" lunches need someone to pay the tab. 

Copyright (c) 1998 ZDNet


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