Earthlink Earnings Fall51 percent to $16.4 million ( old news - 09:03AM Thursday Apr 20 2006) While Earthlink may be branching out and seeing success in the muni-Wi-Fi business, it's not a huge money-maker yet - and the company is still burdened with watching dial-up customers migrate to other broadband options. "Earnings fell 51 percent to $16.4 million, or 12 cents per share, down from $33.3 million, or 22 cents per share, a year earlier. Revenue fell 8 percent to $309.7 million from $334.7 million," reports the Associated Press. Earthlink last quarter unveiled their new line powered voice technology and 8Mbps ADSL2+ bundle.
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join:2000-08-16
Miami, FL | Re: Earthlink still in financial trouble long term Bye Bye Earthlink I'll miss you! | |
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58ef2c0
Premium,ExMod 2000-03
join:2000-05-11
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| They are about to lose another $1400/yr of long-term business from me (been with them for 10 years) because I can never get anyone on the phone in their so-called business plan technical support center. They're so busy chasing pennies that they are letting the dollars they already have blow out the window.
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join:2004-06-28
Seattle, WA
| Re: Earthlink still in financial trouble long term I dumped them in January after being a dsl customer with them/Mindspring since 1999. Was always happy with the dsl product they gave me and it rarely if ever went down. However, the customer/technical service was difficult to reach and often didn't have answers to questions. I was moving January 1 and wanted their new LinePowered Voice product. Called a few days beforehand and no one - customer service, tech support, install folks - claimed to know what I wanted. Then the ads appeared here in Seattle a few days later for the same dang product. That pushed me over the edge. I won't miss them. Frankly, they're doing themselves in...despite having good products, their beyond-crappy customer service is going to bury them as good long-term customers like me leave. Went with Speakesy - higher price but rock solid (and responsive) customer service. | |
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CO_Chris
Premium
join:2001-08-28
Broomfield, CO
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| Re: AOL's fate? said by OldschoolDSL  :Call me crazy, but I believe Earthlink will go down about the same time AOL does. Maybe its the name and people remember it more as a Dail-up company. Or maybe its the fact that they resell more services, then they own and thus can't always complete with the market as others can. I just have this feeling that Earthlink is going to keep heading downward for the long hall. I have to agree with you EL is going down in a ball of flames fast. Who wants a sub par ISP anyway?
Down 51% that's really bad how can the stay afloat? | |
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b1gdr3
I Blame Your Mother
join:2001-07-28
Pittsburgh, PA | hehe EarthLink is dead, long live EarthLink. | |
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join:2002-10-21
Lagrange, GA | ??? Why wouldn't they lose money, they are teamed up with the horrible ISP known as Charter. We all know how Charter likes to lose money. | |
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ewgen
@swbell.net
| RE: Earthlink 10 year customer here, just left them for att/sbc DSL.
I was paying $54 with taxes for like 2 years, until I called and demanded a lower rate, so they lowered me to $39. That's still double what I pay now with ATT/SBC.
for the same service.
I'll miss them, they've been rock solid for 6 years of DSL but they are just too expensive to compete now. | |
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