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AOL: Drop Dial-Up, Get Broadband
By Ed Oswald, BetaNews
February 21, 2006, 7:02 PM
AOL said Tuesday that it would raise the price of its dial-up offering by
$2 in an effort to encourage dial-up subscribers to sign up for broadband
services provided by the company. Both its traditional service and its new
broadband offering will now be priced at $25.90 USD per month.
The new pricing is set to take effect March 9. Not affected would be the
company's 10-hour limited-use dialup and bring-your-own access plan, both
priced at $14.95 USD monthly, and its annual prepaid plan, which retails
for $239.40 with the option for a partial refund if the customer cancels
early.
In recent weeks, AOL partnered with the four remaining Baby Bell companies
-- BellSouth, Verizon, AT&T and Qwest -- to bundle their high-speed
offerings with AOL service. It also joined forces with two cable
operators: Time Warner Cable and Charter Communications. Each company will
charge $25.90 USD per month, except for BellSouth, which will charge
$29.90 USD.
According to AOL, these carriers can serve a majority of its current
subscribers.
AOL sees these broadband deals as crucial to the future success of the
company with more and more dial-up customers cycling off the service. The
company has also made an effort to open more of its content to the general
public, which it subsidizes through selling advertising.
The company has suffered from a loss of customers; it counted 19.5 million
U.S. subscribers at the end of last year. This is down some 30 percent
from its peak of 26.7 million subscribers in late 2002. AOL says
three-quarters of its members are still on dial-up.
On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 04:20:49 -0500, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I hope that someone here can help me.
>
> About a week ago, when I was trying to sign on to aol, the computer said
> that
> an error had occurred on aol and if this problem continued that I needed
> to
> reinstall aol. This message came up as soon as I hit the aol button. It
> didn't even try to dial. I tried several times.
>
> I called aol and ordered a 9.0 version since the one I have on here is
> 7.0
> because I thought if I had to reinstall it, I would rather have a newer
> version.
>
> When I went to the add/remove program and clicked on remove aol, a screen
> came up that said it was trying to find all versions of aol and it also
> said
> that
> no changes were being made to my computer at this time. This screen
> stayed
> on for a time and then I clicked CONTROL-ALT-DELETE to see if the
> program was
> responding and it said that it was NOT. I tried this several times and
> the
> same thing happened. I decided to delete a different program and it
> worked.
>
> I decided to get out the aol disc that came with the computer so that I
> could
> reinstall it into the same folder as the other aol and thought it would
> write
> over the old one and then maybe I could delete it to put the 9.0 in.
> Well,
> it didn't write over it- now I have aol 7.0 and aol 7.0a. However, I CAN
> sign
> on to 7.0a but it freezes up when I try to go to websites. Also, when I
> sign
> off, aol downloads a bunch of stuff for a couple of minutes.
>
>
> What I want to do it delete both versions of aol that are on my computer
> and
> then put on 9.0.
>
> Can anyone help me?
>
> Thank you SOOOO much.
>
> Dee
>
>
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