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Jeff Pulver informs on his blog that Free World Dialup, the pioneer VoIP service he launched 12 years ago, will not be free any longer. Members now have to pay a $30/year subscription fee in order to continue to use FWD’s services.
I definitely praise this move, and every VoIP user should. It’s an important sign that VoIP is well and growing and that there are services that deserve the support of their faithful users in order to improve their offering and keep giving them high value added services.
I’d also like to point out that I predicted this back at the beginning of this year. If VoIP is providing you with value, as you are used to pay for your cable TV, for you Satellite TV, for your Mobile subscriptions, you have to pay for VoIP too, there is nothing wrong here. FWD is the first VoIP provider which made the big move to switch from free to a very cheap subscription fee, less than 8 cents a day, I bet most of their users will support them.
Nearly 1M registered users a and close to 40.000 daily online users. I call it success, don’t you? Maybe not promoted neither advertised like other services, but definitely a reference in this market.
By the way, I became a paying member back in July 2007, what are you waiting for?
