They will continue to lose customers if they don't change their business model soon.
Most of their system is still geared toward the dial-up customer. Ferinstance... their news servers are bandwidth limited to about 8KBps per second so that dial-up users can get in. I cannot imagine that it would be *that* expensive to set up another server (or bank of servers) at broadband.news.earthlink.net that could server the broadband public. As it stands right now, I'm looking at AT&T again so that I can get my bandwidth back on the news servers that I frequent (not many binaries...) ;) smiles, Jamie On 1/29/03 11:05 AM, Bill McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: >chris wrote: > >>But I guess this is what happens when IT people here start demanding 6 >>figure salaries (oh how I wish I could have one of those), and over in >>India you get just as qualified people that are happy to do the work for >>$100 a day. > >The article said that they expected to save $20 million per year. > >Earthlink was quoted as saying that dial up was a mature part of the >business, and this will allow them to concentrate on broadband, which is >the growing part of the business. The company lost 100,000 dialup >customers in third quarter 2002, while it gained 77,000 broadband >customers. > >Bill McIntyre >San Clemente, CA ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
