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Web portal Yahoo on Monday introduced two paid services for its home page community GeoCities in an ongoing effort to charge for certain features throughout its site.
As previously reported, Yahoo recently told GeoCities' home page publishers it would begin charging fees for people using FTP (file transfer protocol), a popular means of publishing content on Web pages. A Yahoo executive attributed the price change to abuse by nonpaying users of FTP and remote loading, and to attempts to address costs of offering the service.
One new GeoCities feature, called GeoCities Plus, will cost $4.95 a month with a one-time $10 setup fee. The service doesn't serve ads and offers 25MB of storage, FTP access and additional bandwidth.
Additionally, Yahoo unveiled GeoCities Advantage, a package for more advanced Web publishers that includes ad-free space, more sophisticated tools, 100MB of storage and a domain name. The service will cost $19.95 a month with a $25 setup fee.
News source: C|Net
Web portal Yahoo on Monday introduced two paid services for its home page community GeoCities in an ongoing effort to charge for certain features throughout its site.
As previously reported, Yahoo recently told GeoCities' home page publishers it would begin charging fees for people using FTP (file transfer protocol), a popular means of publishing content on Web pages. A Yahoo executive attributed the price change to abuse by nonpaying users of FTP and remote loading, and to attempts to address costs of offering the service.
One new GeoCities feature, called GeoCities Plus, will cost $4.95 a month with a one-time $10 setup fee. The service doesn't serve ads and offers 25MB of storage, FTP access and additional bandwidth.
Additionally, Yahoo unveiled GeoCities Advantage, a package for more advanced Web publishers that includes ad-free space, more sophisticated tools, 100MB of storage and a domain name. The service will cost $19.95 a month with a $25 setup fee.
News source: C|Net
Mexicans are also expected to warmly embrace broadband technologies over the next five years. Revenue derived from ADSL (Asynchronous Digital Subscriber Line) service and from cable modem connections will increase at a compound annual rate of 85 percent and 35 percent, respectively, the Yankee Group said this week. ADSL and cable modem are broadband technologies that let users connect to the Internet at much higher speeds than are possible using regular dial-up service.
Consumers and small and medium-size businesses are the primary market for these two technologies, because service costs less than the dedicated lines large companies lease from carriers for high-speed Internet connections. Revenue from leased lines will actually drop at a compound rate of 2 percent over the same time period in México, according to the Yankee Group.
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