Free Internet Access Providers is basically a business or an organization that provides free Internet access and other related services to the consumers without any charge . There were several renowned Free Internet Access Providers during the end of 1990's. There were no major limitations for these services. All it required was a display of an ad bar while the Internet is being accessed.
Free Internet Access Providers were at the beginning only run by the phone companies. But now any individual or a group can work as the Free Internet Access Providers. To support the free Internet access , several technologies are used. The basic technologies used for this access is the ‘dial up' and ‘DSL'. Internet transit, domain name, registration and hosting, web hosting and collocation are few combinations of services provided by these technologies.
With the crash of the dot com stocks, the Internet advertising hit the ground.
Due to this fall several Free Internet Access Providers have gone out of business and others have declined over the past few years. The Free Internet Access Providers still surviving took up certain measures as a precaution. They no longer provide free unlimited access to the Internet. A specific time limit is maintained by most of the Free Internet Access Providers. Today the free Internet service is used mainly as a backup to the primary Internet access providers .
etZero, Bootbox, Mailtag, CollegeClub, EarthLink, etc. are the few famous Free Internet Access Providers who inspite of all the various drawbacks have continued to provide this free service to the Internet users.
