 korymGo Wisp'sExMod 1999-03
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Richmond, VA | Ummm... What's interesting is that AOL's own broadband leader seems to be focusing more on narrowband than broadband. Yikes. 
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I liked the bit about color coding the DSL installation packages and including videotapes......"Why, even a monkey could be browsing at lightning fast speeds in no time!!" |
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AOL is really a content provider they hope to hook and crook you into buying just like a infomecial from Ron Popel or Tony whats his name and the Gazelle Freestyle Elite.
She actually has a point in the numbers game because to AOL as SUB is just a SUB another number on a credit card they want people to keep AOL dialup as long as possible its very profitable.
$24.99
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UUNET-Brokewing-TWTC- Aleron-Megapop cost for backbone and POP= $5-7.00 per SUB
Customer care: $1.00 with educated subs with beginners it can go $2.50 month per SUB on average. The $9.95 guys want them to keep stupid beginner SUBS.
Content: $2.00-$3.00 per SUB
Total $10.00 and it can get cheaper than this on
Total $16.95-$12.95 profit for AOL.
Now on these Cheap $9.95 account you make around $2.00 per sub and the industry average for dialup is $14.95 per sub per month.
Budget rarely provides much content we all find our own anyway that’s what MSN and Yahoo are good for free content.
DSL is not near as profitable for the ISP now it is for Ma Bell. It cost Bell around $20 bucks in real dollars to provide what they provide to an ISP. They let the ISP make like $3-5 bucks. When you sell DSL service you have to face it something named Bell can make you or screw you to the wall. Whoopie.
Wirelesses offer good money for the regional ISP or the guy that can find his little nitch in the cornfield. Its not an area AOL could hope to conquer. WISP’ing separates the men from the boys quickly.
Second it’s an economy thing many folks are tightening the purse strings they will stay or migrate back to dialup because of their economic situation for the next couple of years.
Third many folks like email but really rarely just surf the net mostly our aging population and well many folks in their 40’s if its not at work I have better things to do at home. The real switch for this group is still good old VOIP cheap all you can eat long distance service worldwide.
The future of broadband though is Wireless and VOIP plain and simple:)
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 MikePremium,Mod
join:2000-09-17
Pittsburgh, PA | reply to korym
cool, AOL marketing, administration, and programming all have no idea about the industry or what the hell is going |
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 dvd536as Mr. Pink as they comePremium
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
kudos:4 | reply to korym
said by korym:
What's interesting is that AOL's own broadband leader seems to be focusing more on narrowband than broadband. Yikes.
people with broadband are more apt to be tech saavy than those on narrowband.
so easy to use no matter its. . . . . "maybe if i click 'buy it' those popups will go away. gotta love AOL |
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 bobno
join:2000-10-31
Orland Park, IL | reply to jethrogump
you hit the nail on the head with the costs. As I read the article I could hear the thought process "No churn, don't cannablize our current (profitable) user base, status quo." Narrowband being around forever is more of a desire or hope on AOL's part to keep their job simple and profitable. Whether the market actually does is another story.
Another telling subplot here is the lack of urgency of a content provider to push broadband. That tells me there is no market for value-added content or content-on-demand services for the foreseeable future. |
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LMAO.........now that is funny....... |
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