AOL to be free for Broadband subscribers?
Has hell frozen over? What was the song the fat lady sung? AOL is deciding if they want to give away more services including its AOL.com accounts reserved for paying customers. How is this a business plan to get the company back on the right track?
[AOL has] a proposal under consideration which calls for Time Warner’s online unit to stop charging subscription fees to users who have high-speed Internet access or even dial-up service from a rival provider. Under the plan the company would continue to charge the fees for those needing dial-up access through AOL. The AOL software also would allow subscribers to continue using instant messaging, Web journals and other services without having to download separate software or figure out Web-based options. That would ease the transition and encourage them to keep using AOL services, the person familiar with the matter said.
AOL, dial-up is dead. Face the facts, with this plan your are doomed to fail.
