Jason Levine
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join:2001-07-13
USA
| The Offering
Under the agreement, the new broadband offering will consist of a special edition of the AOL client with its popular content and features optimized for broadband that is combined with Road Runner's high-speed connectivity and its content. This new offering will provide unlimited broadband access as well as 10 hours of dial-up connectivity monthly. Once installed by Time Warner Cable, the new offering's client will be available on the computer desktop and the AOL.com portal will be set as the default home page.
I don't know about other RR users, but I couldn't care less about AOL's content. I don't want TW Cable to install an AOL client onto my PC nor do I want my home page set to AOL.com. Luckily, the article says that the normal, non-AOL service will still be available. I'll stay on that service thank you very much. And if they decide to discontinue the non-AOL service, I'll move to DSL. (A move I've been pondering for awhile but haven't done because the price savings don't offset the speed decrease.)
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SRFireside
join:2001-01-19
Houston, TX
| Roadrunner has been trying to get me to install bleated software for years. Never touched it and never needed. Suggested to all my friends and family to avoid it as well. If the new Roadrunner/AOL comes to your door just don't install it. Ah... the joys of DHCP. |
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drake
drizzy
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join:2002-06-10
Brooklyn, NY
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I think I'd have to concur with you, Jason Levine  .
I'm not much of an AOL fan, myself. Yes, I use their software ... only because others in my home treat it as "user-friendly" type application. If it wasn't for that fact, AOL would be dead off my system -- never to be seen again!
If AOL/Time Warner decides to go ahead and combine their works, into a forceful tactic on subscribers, then, RR just lost me as an subscriber, overall --- and hello to Verizon DSL! The only thing I'd probably regret about switching is Verizon, here, in NYC has had some ongoing issues with their bandwidth for the last couple of weeks, and I really don't want be bogged down with a unreliable ISP.
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