Net Enters Asia Pacific Freei. Net has become the first American free ISP service to take the leap into the Asia Pacific market. The company expects free service to become available by January, though the location where its offerings will first become available was not specified. Freei Asia-Pacific will be based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and will be led by Alex Wong and Ross Knudson.
Internet access is the key to accelerated growth.
Through this partnership with Freei. Net, we can make the Internet accessible to anyone in this area, regardless of their income level. Rod Hamlin, Freei. Net sees the governments of Singapore and Malaysia as being ahead of the U.S. in terms of promoting PC use and Internet connectivity. Net pointed to recent reports hailing the Asian region as the next boom market, including Goldman Sachs' Asia Internet Report target of 15 million current Net users and IDC's prediction of 42 million users in Asia by 2001.