Free or low-cost Internet Services

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• Fax Services
• Short Message Service (SMS) to Mobile Phones
• Messages to Pagers
• Internet Telephony

About this page

Latest update at 23-Aug-1999.

Note that some of the company or product names may be protected (Trademarks etc.). In general, trademarks etc. are not indicated!

The information given is believed to be correct, however, I am not responsible for any consequences of erroneous or misleading information. You have to verify the info yourself. This page just gets you started. The dates given in italics tell you how old the info is. Note that things change quickly on the Internet ...

See also SNAP On-Line with "Investigative reporting of free email and free web spaces on the Internet". There you find useful information about the quality of various free internet services. Take care, some of the reviews may be outdated. (Last time I looked they were, esp. the info about the amount of disk space offered for free at GeoCities, Tripod etc.). It is just impossible to keep up with things on the Internet. (I am afraid this page here just demonstrates the truth of that statement. ;-)) So you always have to check yourself if the info given there and the ratings are still valid.

Always check carefully the terms and conditions of the provider! Some services are restricted to non-commercial use e.g.

Email Services:

• Mail Forwarding: You have one email address ("for lifetime"). You choose to what other email address your mail is forwarded. Change your forward address whenever you want.
• POP Mail Server: Mail is stored on the server and can be accessed by a POP Mail client.
• Web based Email: Read your mail from anywhere using your web browser. Only a computer with Internet access and a Web browser required.
• Other features: Not mentioned in the table. Features like mail filtering, blocking certain sender addresses, address book, POP Mail Client functions (read Mail from other POP servers), etc.

Webspace, free Homepages, etc.:

• GeoCities. That's where this page is. 11 MB disk space and Mail services for free. 25 MB disk space and other goodies for GeoPlus members ($4.95/month). 08-Jun-1998
• Crosswinds. Unlimited webspace for non-commercial use. Also POP Mail. 06-Jul-1998
• Tripod. 11 MB disk space for free. 22 MB disk space, email forwarding etc. with premium membership ($3/month). 06-Jul-1998
• XOOM. 11 MB web space free. Also Email services. 03-Nov-1998
• FortuneCity: www.fortunecity.com, www.fortunecity.de (Germany), sweden.fortunecity.com (Sweden). 20 MB web space. 09-Mar-1999
• WebJump Free Web Hosting. 25 MB web space. Ad banner on top of page. 18-Jan-1999
• ProHosting. 10 MB disk space for free. POP mail account. 03-Nov-1998
• EUROPE-at-HOME (Yellow Internet's multicultural metropolis). Free web space: max. 2 MB, max. 500 Hits per day, only for Europeans. Additional space/hits and space for non-Europeans with commercial or professional pages (starting at 10 ECU/month). 05-Feb-1998
• gURLpages 11 MB free web space. Also free gURLmAIL account. 08-Apr-1999
• FREEPAGE.DE (German). 20 MB disk space, email address (forwarding). 05-Mar-1999
• 1 & 1 Puretec (German). 10 MB disk space. 05-Mar-1999
• Private Home Pages (PHP, German). Limits: 1 MB disk space, 26 files. 05-Feb-1998
• Polbox (English) / Polbox (Polish). 2 MB disk space and a mail account for free. Account is deleted if mail is not checked for 60 days. 05-Feb-1998
• EarthLink. 6 MB web space free. Transfer volume limited. 06-Jul-1998
• Hometown AOL. 08-Aug-1998

Web page building / maintenance / checking:

• NetMechanic: Online Link Testing, HTML Validation. Check for dead links etc. 24-Apr-1998
• Web Site Garage. Checks a web page for dead links, browser compatibility etc. Also tools for compressing images. 24-Apr-1998
• W3C HTML Validation Service. 19-Jan-1999

Fax Services:

• Sending Fax messages, Email to Fax, etc.
  • Fax services to many countries all over the world:
    • TPC.INT. The TPC service is a collection of FAX servers you may use to send a fax by e-mail to many locations around the world. It is also possible to send a fax directly from the browser window. 24-Apr-1998
    • Easynet Easyfax. Free Fax service to UK (20 per day) and to the world (2 per day). 29-Sep-1998
  • Fax services by country:
    • Germany:
      • VLF.net. (Faxes to other countries are sent via TPC). Pages in German. 08-Mar-1999
      • TelDaFax. 30-Jun-1999
    • India: Free Fax to Chennai (Madras). Page describes how to send a free fax via email to Chennai (Madras), India. 13-Apr-1999
    • United Kingdom: Easynet Easyfax. 29-Sep-1998
    • USA:
      • IntelliFax.com FreeFax USA. 13-Apr-1999
      • Fax4Free.com (tm). 23-Aug-1999
• Receiving Fax messages, Fax to Email, etc.
  • eFax.com. Received Faxes are sent as an attachment by email. U.S. fax number. 23-Apr-1999
  • CallWave / FaxWave Received Faxes are sent as an attachment by email. U.S. fax number (Northern California). 23-Aug-1999
  • VLF.net. "VLF-Box" for receiving Fax, Email, voice calls. Also Fax to Email. German fax number. Pages are in German. 08-Mar-1999
  • commit GmbH. Fax to Email. German fax number. Pages are in German. 08-Mar-1999
  • Fax2Mail for free. Fax to Email. German fax number. Pages are in German. 27-May-1999

Short Message Service (SMS) to Mobile Phones:

• To many countries all over the world:
  • MTN South Africa. 14-May-1999
• Germany:
  • Beyond the Net Internet Services GmbH (Pages in German). SMS to German and Swiss Mobile Phones.
    Note: Ad messages are appended to your message. Sponsor may be a provider of certain premium rate telephone services (0190 phone number in Germany or 0900). Make sure the recipient agrees with getting those messages. (You might want to use this service only for sending messages to people you know). 09-Mar-1999
  • VLF.net. Pages in German. SMS to Germany and Switzerland (via Ericsson Switzerland) and via MTN South Africa to other countries. May have considerable delay. 19-Apr-1999
  • debitel. Up to 15 messages per month to German Mobile Phones D1, D2 and Eplus. 23-Apr-1999
  • TelDaFax. 30-Jun-1999
• Switzerland:
  • Beyond the Net Internet Services GmbH (Pages in German). SMS to German and Swiss Mobile Phones.
    Note: Ad messages are appended to your message. Sponsor may be a provider of certain premium rate telephone services (0190 phone number in Germany or 0900). Make sure the recipient agrees with getting those messages. (You might want to use this service only for sending messages to people you know). 09-Mar-1999
  • VLF.net. Pages in German. SMS to Germany and Switzerland (via Ericsson Switzerland) and via MTN South Africa to other countries. May have considerable delay. 19-Apr-1999

Messages to Pagers:

• VLF.net. Send Messages to German (Scall, Skyper, Cityruf, Quix, Telmi) and Austrian (CallMe) pagers. Pages in German. 15-Feb-1999

Internet Telephony:

• Net2phone Call toll-free numbers in the United States from other countries. Calls to other numbers using a prepaid account. 23-Sep-1998
  

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