rrneteng
Piedmont Triad Region
join:2004-08-06
united state | **YAWN**
Our division started this "roll out" about a week ago. |
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Karride
Slower Traffic Keep Right
Premium
join:2000-04-17
Germantown, TN | And the whole world looks at AOL and says....
DUH! |
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Karl Bode
News Guy
join:2000-03-02
1 edit | reply to rrneteng
Re: **YAWN**
I think you're confusing the company's plan to offer AOL to Roadrunner/TWC customers (announced months ago), with this suggestion of actually combining the two once TWC goes public.... |
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Kfedka
Premium
join:2005-05-06
Spokane, WA | reply to Karride
Re: And the whole world looks at AOL and says....
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|What he said. Make that doubld duh! |
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ylen131
join:2000-02-09
Canoga Park, CA | NOOOOOOOOO
aol get away from time Warner cable. AOL is garbage and no one should ever install it on there computer |
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rrneteng
Piedmont Triad Region
join:2004-08-06
united state
| reply to Karl Bode
Re: **YAWN**
Sadly no, I will double check with some standard CSR's but im pretty sure this is what we started about a week ago. Matter of fact we actually got pizza on behalf of AOL for this I think. Sadly though, I dont pay that much attention to that side of the field.
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Yeah, but at least I get cronjobs nightly. |
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Steve
I'm a PC, so shut up
Consultant
join:2001-03-10
Yorba Linda, CA | You don't pay attention to pizza? WTF is wrong with you?
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JSRoman
Premium
join:2005-03-10
Callahan, FL
| About time!
AOL serves 20-21 million customers. Strictly from a business standpoint they should have done this along time ago. Granted not many people that visit DDR most likely use AOL but there is still a crap load of folks who still live and die by AOL. A lot of folks who have not switched from dial up to broadband have not done so because they think it would be to complicated. AOL will help those folks take that giant step.
Can we stop bashing Amercian companies for like 5 minutes? Some of you people who want AOL to die should think of all the folks that work for AOL and grandma/grandpa who only connection to WWW is AOL. |
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bokamba
Chengdu Rocks
Premium
join:2002-04-05
Falls Church, VA | I wouldn't call it bashing. I would call it mockery of a ridiculously poor business strategy. |
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grapkoski
Premium
join:2004-05-28
Washington, DC | But it is one they are trying to correct, personally I think they will slowly be coming to their senses that the AOL client is a big waste of money and man power. But the content of AOL is far superior to any other Cable companies own portal. |
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hopeflicker
Capitalism breeds greed
Premium
join:2003-04-03
Long Beach, CA
| reply to JSRoman
A lot of folks who have not switched from dial up to broadband have not done so because they think it would be to complicated. AOL will help those folks take that giant step. turn their computers into spam zombies.
Ohh, wait! That's right, they have that free anti-spyware and virus protection. NM, silly me |
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djrobx
join:2000-05-31
Valencia, CA
 ·PHONE POWER
 ·AT&T U-Verse
·AT&T CallVantage
·Time Warner VOIP
 ·RoadRunner Cable
| reply to JSRoman
CNN published a story about AOL buying Time Warner in January of 2000. Wouldn't the next logical step be to offer AOL via that giant cable company they just purchased? Of course it took some time to be approved, but that still gives the companies time to prepare their strategies. For AOL to go for over five years without utilizing TWC seems absolutely insane. Scratching your head at this lethargy has nothing to do with bashing AOL or its users. If you like AOL and want it to succeed, you'd want to see it available to TWC's 18.8 million homes, no?
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\\ROB - a part of the SCB local network |
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SRFireside
join:2001-01-19
Houston, TX | reply to Steve
Re: **YAWN**
More importantly... what KIND of pizza? |
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storm64007
Premium
join:2001-05-21
Freeport, NY
3 edits | reply to hopeflicker
Re: About time!
said by hopeflicker  :A lot of folks who have not switched from dial up to broadband have not done so because they think it would be to complicated. AOL will help those folks take that giant step. turn their computers into spam zombies. Ohh, wait! That's right, they have that free anti-spyware and virus protection. NM, silly me What i dont understand is that AOL DID THIS ALREADY 5 years ago. They offered AOL Broadband where they switched dial up users over to broadband (cable/time warner and DSL-whoever your telco was) and you were billed under AOL. I know..i had AOL broadband 3 years ago. Dont confuse this with BYOA..it was AOL BROADBAND.
They stopped offering AOL broadband about a year and a half ago. |
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J D McDorce
Premium
join:2001-12-29
Westland, MI
2 edits | reply to djrobx
Upon reflection, I do not wish to post. Take me back! |
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anonymon
@verizon.n |  a faster way to get spyware & malware hooooray!
 Bad for the consumer, great for me, keeps my pockets lined with green having to clean up/repair all the pcs that will be affected by more aol junk.:p |
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maartena
Stacked.
Premium
join:2002-05-10
Orange, CA
·RoadRunner Cable
| I have RoadRunner....
I have RoadRunner cable from TWC. All I want is a TCP/IP connection as I have my own domain with e-mail, webspace, antivirus, antispam all built in, and I have my own firewall and antivirus on my computers.
If they require to install ANY software that even remotely smells lik AOL, I am dumping RoadRunner and switching to DSL.
I like RoadRunner, is has been working great for me for 3 years now. But I absolutely LOATHE AOL and ritually destroy the CD's I get sent about once a month.
There will be NO AOL whatsover on my computer.
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And i'm right. I'm always right, but this time I'm a little more right then I usually am. |
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Logwind
join:2003-06-20 | I doubt you'll have to install anything you don't want to. |
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jammmin
join:2000-12-14
Upper Marlboro, MD | In the DC area, AOL offers broadband DSL for $29.99 a month. I am not sure what is the speed though. The service is through Covad. |
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ricep5
Premium
join:2000-08-07
Jacksonville, FL
 ·AT&T Southeast
·AT&T CallVantage
·VoicePulse
·Comcast Formerly ..
| Consent Decree
Lest memory serves, AOL had a consent decree when they merged with TW providing restrictions on what service markets they could enter and if they did, what terms they had to follow.
At the time AOL was the 200 pound bully and everyone was thinking they were going to migrate their market to other services.
I believe that decree expires this year. So while BBR may have been harping on them, there may have been legal reasons keeping them from entering new markets. |
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