FF:NZ ZFree to Close Down

ZFree gets chop

No more freebies as customers shift to paying service

Fiona Mayo, Auckland IDGNet
TelstraClear says there's no such thing as a free lunch on the internet and has given ZFree the chop. The announcement comes as no surprise. Before TelstraSaturn's $435 million acquisition of it last year, Clear put a cap on new subscriptions to the free internet service, claiming it could no longer provide it if numbers continued to grow.

ZFree customers will be offered a new pay service, Home 150, which will run on CLEAR Net infrastructure. They will get five email addresses and 150 hours of internet access for $14.95 a month. Each hour after that will cost $2.

The service is to be "scaled down" from tomorrow, and will close on April 30. ZFree has around 250,000 subscribers. TelstraClear says during its lifetime, ZFree provided 57 million free internet hours to New Zealanders.

 

good ridince (the net will go 0.00000001 % faster)lol

 

Well, I'm now in the market for a new ISP I suppose.

 

hehe

If you can't afford net usage you dont diserve it.

//this comming from a poor uni student who must "pre-pay" his net usage to une the boards //

 

you can always use I4free but thats sloooooow... ok as a backup when Slingshot aint workin though

 

The people who brought zfree accounts of trade me this week must be gutted

 

i couldn't use it anyway, living in a rural area, so this news saddens me not

 

tried it 4 a while but got real sick of the low speed. Still a little sad that a free option has been taken away

 

Sad to see it go, It was a good idea just couldn't keep it up.

 

[face_shocked]



D'OH!!!!! Just when my folks left me and bro surviving on our own came THIS!! I'll only have $20 left after the monthly bus pass!! I hate being so poor!!

 

hahaha

I was gonna type: Wlcome to the life of auni student... but my Student load kicking in!

I'M IN THE MONEY. I'M IN THE MONEY. DO DO DA DO DA DO DO.

out of $150 a week - I'm aiming to save at least $100.

$50 a week for alc / PIES / internet fees... should be able to do that.

 

out of $150 a week - I'm aiming to save at least $100.

You have no idea, do you?

 

1st years, all hopes & dreams


then reality of life will hit him
just like it has hit us working folk

(i think JP will help speed up life's reality check)

i think he will be lucky 2 save 25 bucks out of that lot

 

out of $150 a week - I'm aiming to save at least $100.

ummm...only if you plan to sit in a darkened room entertaining yourself with shadow puppets made by manufacturing a candle from your own earwax SFL

 

"anyone got a lighter?" - SFL with earwax candle running frantically through halls corridor.

 

SFL: But you have to actually pay back the student loan. I am *not* going to borrow any money, 'cept from my parents.

jp: