| reply to DSL man0
Re: Whatever.... I thought we were talking about RESIDENTIAL BROADBAND. AOL will never provide BUSINESS CLASS ANYTHING. Comparing RESIDENTIAL dial-up to BUSINESS broadband is not fare. The margin for residential dial-up is far greater than piggybacking ISPs make on $40-$50 residential broadband where they are completely at the mercy of monopoly infrastructure providers who could crush them in an instant if there was no fear of government regulation. AOL's cost is only like $7/month per dial-up user, it's about $40 for broadband. Plus and installation problems are paid by the ISP. Dial-up has none of these problems, every customer is a guaranteed profit. |
