Is this the real beginning of the end of AOL?
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Is this the real beginning of the end of AOL?
How can they not offer broadband when everyone is moving toward it? More people dropping dialup every day. Something really wrong here. 
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AOL Tells Customers to Find New Carrier
DULLES, Va. - America Online, which earlier this year stopped signing up new broadband customers, is telling existing broadband subscribers in nine Southern states that they must find a new broadband carrier by Jan. 17.
Those customers who do not switch to a new broadband carrier by that date will have their accounts revert to AOL's traditional dialup service, said AOL spokeswoman Anne Bentley.
The company has been e-mailing its customers in those nine states that they can switch to high-speed broadband service offered by BellSouth Corp. for a special promotional rate.
Most of AOL's 23 million subscribers receive standard dialup service for $24 a month. The company will not disclose how many customers still receive the $54 monthly broadband service, which Bentley acknowledged is relatively expensive compared to other broadband pricing packages now available to consumers.
Bentley said she expects AOL will phase out existing broadband customers in the rest of the country in a similar manner over the next year.
The affected states are Florida, Kentucky, Georgia, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina.
America Online is a unit of Time Warner Inc. "
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...e/aol_broadband
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AOL Tells Customers to Find New Carrier
DULLES, Va. - America Online, which earlier this year stopped signing up new broadband customers, is telling existing broadband subscribers in nine Southern states that they must find a new broadband carrier by Jan. 17.
Those customers who do not switch to a new broadband carrier by that date will have their accounts revert to AOL's traditional dialup service, said AOL spokeswoman Anne Bentley.
The company has been e-mailing its customers in those nine states that they can switch to high-speed broadband service offered by BellSouth Corp. for a special promotional rate.
Most of AOL's 23 million subscribers receive standard dialup service for $24 a month. The company will not disclose how many customers still receive the $54 monthly broadband service, which Bentley acknowledged is relatively expensive compared to other broadband pricing packages now available to consumers.
Bentley said she expects AOL will phase out existing broadband customers in the rest of the country in a similar manner over the next year.
The affected states are Florida, Kentucky, Georgia, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina.
America Online is a unit of Time Warner Inc. "
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...e/aol_broadband
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Originally Posted by vAnt,Nov 11 2004, 10:57 PM
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Noooo... I need AOL (Im not sure why) I dont use it, last time I signed on was about a year ago.. I almost had my AOL account for 9-10 Years not sure.. ( I have had Cable Internet also for the past 5 years while having AOL too)
AOL Taught me some things like:
1. Girls with screen names with the words Qt/Shy/Hot/Sexy are usually fat and foogly.
2. Not to send 300 dollars thinking I could buy a 2000.00 Dell Laptop for 300.00 by sending money to a abandoned building on the east coast.
3. How retarded People are By TaLkIng LiKe This Cuz iTs KYooT!
4. Not to trust pictures with super high brightness... and at an angle..
5. Server Rooms with MP3's!! (First Mp3 was from an AOL Chat)
6. Punters were gay
7. Not to give your password out to someone with the Screen Name AOL Rep 1
Haha That is all.
AOL Taught me some things like:
1. Girls with screen names with the words Qt/Shy/Hot/Sexy are usually fat and foogly.
2. Not to send 300 dollars thinking I could buy a 2000.00 Dell Laptop for 300.00 by sending money to a abandoned building on the east coast.
3. How retarded People are By TaLkIng LiKe This Cuz iTs KYooT!
4. Not to trust pictures with super high brightness... and at an angle..
5. Server Rooms with MP3's!! (First Mp3 was from an AOL Chat)
6. Punters were gay
7. Not to give your password out to someone with the Screen Name AOL Rep 1
Haha That is all.
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