bhorow
join:2004-05-17
Forest Hills, NY | Its all in the numbers Statistics are misleading.
They are saying that BYOA is based on 20% assumption. Rather than actual statistics. Many of us forget that there are rural areas throughout the U.S. that dialup is the only choice.
I think ISP count is a worthless statistic, what does it say if your an earthlink customer, are you a dsl/Cable customer. What does it say if your an AOL customer Are you dialup/Broadband??
ISP count is a reflection of availability to an area. Since Comcast is the largest cable company it would always be ahead of others. The greater the available population..The higher the subscriber number.
AOL's numbers if you look at 10 million subscribers. That would be high in my view. I just think its not about shedding subscribers but getting accurate counts.
It would be interesting to find out how many of AOL Dialup accounts are rural accounts with no other availability.
I think the smart question is to ask how many "Billable Customers do you have?" Not subscribers. I rather see billable account numbers. |
