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NetZero corporate logo used from October 19, 1998 to March 18, 2012. Netzero bought FreeInet around 1998. FreeInet was the first free national internet service provider. NetZero was launched in October 1998, founded by Ronald T. Burr (original CEO), Stacy Haitsuka, Marwan Zebian and Harold MacKenzie. NetZero grew to 1,000,000 users in six months.
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United Online, Inc. was formed in June 2001 by the merger of Internet service providers NetZero and Juno Online Services. [1] The two merged companies were to be independent subsidiaries of United Online, and the resultant company was the United States' second largest internet service provider at the time.
A poll of 27,973 adults in 26 countries, including 14,306 Internet users, [159] conducted for the BBC World Service between 30 November 2009 and 7 February 2010 found that almost four in five Internet users and non-users around the world felt that access to the Internet was a fundamental right.
The ideas underlying net neutrality have a long pedigree in telecommunications practice and regulation. Services such as telegrams and the phone network (officially, the public switched telephone network or PSTN) have been considered common carriers under U.S. law since the Mann–Elkins Act of 1910, which means that they have been akin to public utilities and expressly forbidden to give ...
The first online service to offer Internet access was DELPHI, which had developed TCP/IP access much earlier, in connection with an environmental group that rated Internet access. [ citation needed ] The explosion of popularity of the World Wide Web in 1994 accelerated the development of the Internet as an information and communication resource ...
Freei Networks, Inc. (also known as Freei.net, FreeInternet.com) was a free internet service provider from 1998-2000. In 2000, FreeInternet.com was acquired by United Online, Inc. (owner of NetZero, Juno, Classmates.com and others). In 2008, United Online re-launched FreeInternet.com as a Web site dedicated to free and discounted retail offers.
By July 2023, there were 1,300 internet providers participating in the ACP, although not all provided the discounted device benefit. [19] In July 2023, a study showed about 14% of the United States was enrolled in the program. [20] As of July 31, 2023, 19.8 million households had signed up for the ACP, with 2.8 million of them in rural counties ...