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Article #4511Netcom Wants your Money Was: Netcom Sinking FAST!!!
From: Stephen Boursy
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 1996 00:00
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 1996 00:00
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Stephen Hall wrote:
>
> Steve j Sullivan wrote:
>>
>> > NETCOM ABANDONS FLAT-RATE PRICING
>> > After two years of being in the red, California-based Internet service
>> > provider Netcom On-Line Communications Services is doing away with its
>> > flat-rate pricing plan for unlimited Internet access, and will raise
>> > rates in order to provide more services and more software.
>>
>> I am surprised Netcom is not making money. $20 a month for for ppp is the
>> standard, and most isp's are able to make a buck charging $20 or even less
>> AND offer halfway decent support. I wonder what netcom did wrong to not
>> make money. They certainly didnt offer too much customer support ;-)
Close to none.
> Perhaps you ought to look at the prices again; no $20 a month flat, they
> did away with the flat rate and implemented the hourly crap; I never did
> like Netcom, just another grabbin the wallet on the bandwagon
Still surprising with both MSN and AOL going unlimited for 19.95 at
the same time.
Steve
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