Internet Investing Internet Technology Internet Lists Windows Internet Tech. Leads Buy Linux Products Internet Intelligence ISP's Rebel, Shift Portal Links Independent ISPs are banding together to abandon links with major portals that provide free dial-up services.
Owners reveal how they keep their fee-paying subscribers happy with the change.
A growing number of independent Internet service providers in the U.S. are mad as hell and they're not going to take it anymore. Major portals that callously offer free dial-up services to viewers. While many ISP owners continue to place prominent links to these portals in order to give customer's convenient access to well-known search engines and directories, more and more independent ISPs are choosing to cut their Web ties to portals that lure subscribers away from their fold. Furthermore, some ISP owners believe that the major portal operators should be paying them for the traffic they bring to the Web destinations. I was recently looking through a friend's Web site and saw the link going to one of the portal sites.