Depending on who you beleive, the Alta Vista deal will involve half your screen being filled with adverts.For Screaming/Localtel you have to live in the right part of the country (ie the south) Completely free access is coming - and we should all rejoice at that - for the moment, us northerners can be more than happy that for less money than it used to cost to get an ISP we can get free calls at the times that most of us want to make them.
Ed
I can even reset my cookie for free!