slingshot anonymous access?

[Marc Wohler]

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:
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>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