Re: GLUG: OT: Worst website. ABSA is winning.

[JvdW <jasper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Strange, nobody says a word about HP's free internet for life??? Has anyone 
tried it yet?

On Thursday 01 March 2001 11:44, Quinton Delpeche wrote:
> Howdy all,
> 
> OK... ...I have managed to weed out information from Liberty Life who are 
> following a similar concept, so I take it that the same may apply to ABSA.
> 
> 
> Basically the concept is as follows:
> 
> The respective companies offer free Internet Access (actually the companies 
> are paying for it from the ISPs).
> 
> Now the respective company has x many subscribers. They now wait patiently 
> for the new Telephone Service Providers (i.e. AT&T, etc.), to enter the 
> country (because you have free internet access but you still have to pay 
for 
> you telephone calls).
> 
> The company approaches the new Subscribers and says, hey we have x many 
> subscribers, wanna take us on board and give us discount or go into a 
> partnership.
> 
> Boom... ...respective company now makes x amount from the service provider 
in 
> order for the service provider to get their customer base.
> 
> 
> This is what I managed to weed out of certain relevant people... ...there 
are 
> a few loopholes ot possible flaws in the plan, but hey... ...maybe it is 
the 
> truth.
> 
> Regards
> Q
> 
> p.s. Personally... ...I will wait for the new Service Providers to enter 
the 
> country first... ...B-)
> 
> On Thursday 01 March 2001 10:32, Stefan Coetzee stated the following in a 
> virtual court of law:
> > >  ABSA is currently leading the competition for worst website/ecommerce
> > >  application.
> >
> > speaking of ABSA, I'm sure all of you are flooded with requests
> > from parents, friends, relatives, cow-orkers about the free internet
> > ABSA offers. has anyone had any experience with this?
> >
> > my opinion is that ABSA doesn't know what they're letting themselves
> > in for, and soon every bit of bandwidth is going to be flooded,
> > and those few of us with pay-to-surf are going to enjoy
> > huge bandwidth increases, until the masses get off ABSA's
> > network, and on to the faster pay-to-surf structure.
> >
> > my 2 cents.
> > Stef
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