September 24, 2005

Why Time Warner Has Fallen in Love With AOL, Again - New York Times

This is nuts. People aren't stupid. They'll eventually move away from AOL.

"'At a certain point, the ones that are left are going to stay,' said Jonathan Gaw, an analyst at IDC, a market research firm based in Framingham, Mass. Current AOL members are sticking with their pokey dial-up service, paying AOL $23.95 a month, even in areas served by Verizon and SBC Communications where D.S.L. service - offering download speeds 7 to 25 times as fast - is now available for $14.95 a month."

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