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How can a company make money by giving free internet?
If a company can give free internet to the world, what could they do to make money from it?
- z3t4 9y agoYou can sell transfer. It's the content provider that pays for the bandwidth, so it doesn't matter if it's free for the end user, as long as you can keep the marginal cost low enough for scale.
- mixermachine 9y agoPlace ads
- mattbgates 9y agoYou are going back to the time of NetZero, who was probably one of the first companies to offer free Internet, at first anyway. They had an ad that was on top of everything and you couldn't avoid it. Though... many of us had that tool to hide it, but that's not a topic for this discussion.
- joeclark77 9y ago"Ask HN: electrical tape or blue painter's tape, which is better and why?"
- claudiulodro 9y agoThey're still around and still offering free dial-up! http://store.netzero.net/account/showService.do?serviceId=nz-dialup http://store.netzero.net/account/showService.do?serviceId=nz...
- wazanator 9y agoSell user data
- joeclark77 9y agoLet's say you want to give this free internet to marginalized communities - remote pacific islands, for example. Maybe you could provide internet to the islanders for free, and get paid by multinational companies to do it, for the PR value. As far as the world is concerned, it'll be Tostitos or Jiffy Lube providing internet to Easter Island or wherever... but on the ground it'll actually be you.
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