The two sides have clashed over subscriber fees and whether the channel should be part of subscribers' basic or premium packages, among other items.
Plenty of people who should know better think selling "freemium" services (the combination of free, basic service and premium, paid service) is a business model.
The most likely outcome: a permanent stratification of Internet access into full-service, low-budget and no-cost tiers, similar to premium and basic cable.
There could be one basic model and one premium model with a bundled game or two, some sort of online subscription, and extra memory.
Kazim likens the model to cable TV, where subscribers can opt for a basic package or one with premium channels.
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The basic, Office 365 Home Premium subscription package also comes with PowerPoint for presentations, OneNote for note-taking, Outlook for e-mail, Publisher for desktop publishing and Access for databases.
Because some channels basically come on basic, some channels are premium ones like HBO, and the other ones you have to buy kind of like on a pick-and-choose basis.
Rather than charge users to buy software, publishers opted for a "freemium" model, in which the basic product was given away but premium add-on services or features involved payment.
It cost a premium over what a more basic gym charged, but she justified it because of how much better their child care was.
The big difference is that the Purple Health Plan features what amounts to premium support for a single basic policy for all Americans, not just those now on Medicare.
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The basic idea is that drug companies charge a premium here in the U.S. for patented medications to which they have exclusive rights.
There are many companies fighting for these agreements in the streaming world, many more in premium cable, and dozens more from basic cable networks.
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The basic service costs 30 rupees a month, and a premium service which provides detailed local crop prices in ten states is available at twice that price.
The basic Looker app will be free but Kogeto plans to charge for premium features like sophisticated editing tools and greater amounts of storage on its site.
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The company said management at its Hull factory had "proposed improvements in basic pay and no redundancies in return for the continued suspension of premium pay for overtime and bank holidays".
Clone and Trend Micro's Internet Security, and that makes Iomega's USB 3.0 eGo Portable Hard Drives an exceptional premium solution at the same price as most entry level basic USB 2.0 products.
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The premium model has been flying off the shelves, while the basic model has been moving much more slowly.
Simply stated, we will not stand idly by as insurers blame their premium hikes and increased profits on the requirement that they provide consumers with basic protections.
The basic subscription will continue to be free but executives will then be able to sign up for premium networking benefits, also at a cost.
The premium model would likely sell out as core gamers take their cut, but the basic model becomes an absolute necessity after early adopters have already purchased their consoles.
Slacker has three complementary service tiers, from the entirely free Slacker Basic Radio and the ad-free Slacker Radio Plus to the on-demand access of Slacker Premium Radio.
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McFadden says that eventually, when SOCIALSPREADS starts to see more clear trends develop with increasing amount of data generated by users and the site begins to recognize consistent winners and losers, he will charge money in a premium package for that information of consistent winners, losers, and geographical information, but the basic lines will continue to be free.
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