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Jacksonville, FL | Ho Hum Slow news day. AOL lays off a few and the rants begin.
AOL-TW was hindered by a consent decree with DOJ as terms of their merger. That decree forbid them from supplying voice or live TV content via their AOL client.
AOL-TW was also hindered by the "last mile" problem that faced all ISP transitions to broadband. The DOJ order forbid them from creating their own last mile due to very intense lobbying from Telecom USA.
Hubris also got in the way internally at AOL-TW, as the AOL management attempted and ultimately failed at running TW. An example was the attempt to move TW Corporate from Exchange to AOL Mail.
AOL was the necessary component to get Apple Pie USA connected and transitioned to the internet. While most considered them an ISP, they were really a content delivery system that used dial up. |
