Comments on: O2 Offers Napster For Free! Big Question: What Will People Pay For in the Future?

By: mark

mark — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:05:47 +0000

I think you misread the press release from France Telecom. When they said they were dropping their rates they meant reduce not eradicate. I am not sure I agree that it will all get reduced to access. Maybe a more interesting area to think about is how different participants use free/bundles to position their propositions. In the UK, as I am sure you know, Carphone Warehouse positioned access as the free element underpinned by voice, which certainly worked in winning share but is a pretty ridiculous long-term position

By: A lesson in open markets and comptetion form Germany and France |

A lesson in open markets and comptetion form Germany and France | — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:23:34 +0000

[...] and comptetion form Germany and France In today’s mix of broadband news from our friends at GigaOM, German O2 subscribers are now getting free access to Napster downloads, and France Telecom has quit [...]

By: Tobias Hieb

Tobias Hieb — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:08:00 +0000

Sounds like a great deal. I think people who use o2 dsl are also target group of napster.

By: Libran Lover

Libran Lover — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:01:18 +0000

Why does the author of some of the posts on Gigaom show up as "Edit Staff"?

By: Libran Lover

Libran Lover — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:00:31 +0000

Things will be free the way broadcast radio and some television channels are free today. For premium content & services, for fast services as well as for ad-free services, we'd still have to pay.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:49:17 +0000

This is not "free." This is "included in the price."