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Re: AOL Broadband will never succeed! They don't don't own any of their POP's either. And that never hurt their dial-up business. AOL's path to riches was an easy, simple way to setup an inet connection, that and chat. Then efficiency of scale kicked in, and the more customers they got the better the price they could get from their wholesalers. Owning the lines isn't their problem. It's poor management. Their business model just doesn't work in a broadband world. Why do you need an easy way to setup your inet or to dialup when you do it once and you're always online? |
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They don't don't own any of their POP's either.
Some national ISP's don't own anything. They are really marketing companies that resell others' product (like Earthlink). Their dialup POP's are owned by companies like Worldcom and Level3. |
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