NetZero

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Template:Cleanup-date NetZero is an Internet Service Provider based in Woodland Hills, California. It is a subsidiary of United Online, owner of Juno Online Services and BlueLight Internet Services.

NetZero, along with its now-sister company BlueLight Internet (which was at first co-owned by Kmart and Yahoo!), originally provided free internet access to users. Claiming in many of its commercials free internet service forever, in exchange for displaying ads on the user's screen in a permanent toolbar.

Starting in January 2001, NetZero began charging for access over 40 hours/month . Users over 40 hours were directed to their Netzero Platinum service, which provided unlimited free access for US$9.95.

Netzero later lowered the threshold for Platinum to 10 hours/month. Free service was still offered to a maximum of 10 hours a month.

In June 2005, the company released a new client that replaced the advertising bar with an Internet Explorer browser helper object

In July 2005, NetZero introduced a service called "3G," standing for the "third generation of internet." The company charged $9.95 for the service, claiming it was so fast, "you wouldn't believe it wasn't broadband." As dial-up connections are limited in speed by the Federal Communications Commission, the service does not actually increase speeds, but pre-fetches HTML markup, JavaScript, and other small files and compresses them. Video, images, and other non-text files are not compressed. This technology also utilizes the user's cache to prevent redownloading.

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