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OneTel Paid Content

PaidContent.org: June 25, 2003 Archives

One.Tel Launches Rival Multi-Media Subscription Service: The UK upstart One.Tel (though owned by a huge energy/telecom corporation), has launched what is perhaps the first UK-native multimedia subscription service, rivalling RealNetworks' RealOne service for UK. The new service, called One.Tel Premier Content, is priced at £6.99 a month, and will initially include access to MTV Live, The Tweenies, One.Tel Gaming, The Refresh Music Club, BBC News And Entertainment and Screensaver Movie trailers. More content will be added later...
One.Tel has also launched a separate online gaming service, priced at £2.99 per month, and users will also be offered the latest news and gaming related content.

Content is the way forward for ISPs / BSPs either on their own or in partnership e.g. BT and Yahoo. It will be interesting to see how the market i.e. you and me, respond to this. And how Broadband towers respond...(of course I know!)

I think it will be positive and as paidcontent says expect more of the same, and expect it to expect it to be a tough and interesting days ahead...