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| | Wired News: ISPs Juno and NetZero to Merge |
 | | Both NetZero, based in Westlake Village, California, and Juno, based in New York, are money-losing companies that have been trying to diversify away from the free-Internet service model, one that has been a hit with consumers, but not with the advertisers who are needed to pay for the service. |
 | | Although both NetZero and Juno still offer Internet service for free to most of their customers, they have both been adding new premium fee-based services, which are now considered essential to building a viable business. |
 | | NetZero, which has some 8.6 million registered users, and 3.7 million active users (defined as those who use the service at least a month), recently added a NetZero Platinum service in which customers pay a $9.95 monthly fee. |
| www.wired.com /news/business/0,1367,44401,00.html (773 words) |
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