MSN to charge for portal content?
Must be 'ard up
Posted in Music and Media, 26th February 2001 12:01 GMT
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MSN is considering charging Net users £60 a year to access its content.
This is because it costs MSN more to run its portal than it makes in advertising revenue.
And it has to make-up the shortfall somehow.
Which is fair enough - plenty of porn sites make people pay for content so why not MSN?
However, if MSN does carry through its idea then it had better be prepared for the consequences; it's unlikely that this will be a popular move.
Furthermore, if advertisers don't think it's good enough to spend their money on it, why should punters spend their hard-earned cash propping up M$?
After all, it's not as if MSN is the only portal around, is it? ®
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