Cpunks, I am using slingshot as a secondary ISP because my Verizon DSL sucks. It's has served me well. A good product with good tech support. You need to buy 1 CD for each machine you use. If you have access to a local # it comes to about 2 cents per min. Using to 800 # is 3X the cost. Bandwidth is only about 33K but good for a backup ISP with complete anonymous Internet access. At 02:54 PM 1/31/01 , you wrote:
Has anyone tried a slingshot subscription yet? It's a US-based ISP providing anonymous internet access (anonymous because it's pre-paid...no credit card required, you buy a cd from a store, use an enclosed code for access, and get 600 local dial-up minutes [or 200 ld minutes]). It's being sold at Staples and Compusa. Their URL is www.slingshot.com. I really like this idea of 'anonymous' dial-up access...very similar to pre-paid isp access ideas in europe. Are these business models going to survive long enough to invest my time/hassle to try this out? I know AOL, Earthlink, MSN, etc. rely heavily on knowing a little about their customers to drive higher CPM revenues (difficult to make money on sub revenues only).
phillip