The UK’s first free PC for every internet service subscriber scheme has been abandoned after less than a month due to lack of demand. Tiny Computers Ltd last month offered new subscribers to its ISP services a free low-spec box in exchange for signing up to its virtual telecoms service for and spending at least 25 pounds per month with it for at least a year. In the event most customers opted for the alternative offer a 200 pound ($320) discount on a top of the range Pentium III machine. The free PC did not include a monitor or any of the usual trimmings and it appears consumers were just not interested.
Time Computers Ltd, which launched a copycat offer shortly after Tiny, said it has no plans to drop its free PC offer, although evidence suggests that most customers are going for the equivalent discounted PIII offer instead. Tiny originally offered machines to customers promising to spend 25 pounds ($40) a month on telephone calls. The 200 pound discount offering still applies.
