AOL users

[bigdaddysmak]

AOL Tells Customers to Find New Carrier




DULLES, Va. - America Online, which earlier this year stopped signing up new broadband customers, is telling existing broadband subscribers in nine Southern states that they must find a new broadband carrier by Jan. 17.



Those customers who do not switch to a new broadband carrier by that date will have their accounts revert to AOL's traditional dialup service, said AOL spokeswoman Anne Bentley.


The company has been e-mailing its customers in those nine states that they can switch to high-speed broadband service offered by BellSouth Corp. for a special promotional rate.


Most of AOL's 23 million subscribers receive standard dialup service for $24 a month. The company will not disclose how many customers still receive the $54 monthly broadband service, which Bentley acknowledged is relatively expensive compared to other broadband pricing packages now available to consumers.


Bentley said she expects AOL will phase out existing broadband customers in the rest of the country in a similar manner over the next year.


The affected states are Florida, Kentucky, Georgia, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina.


America Online is a unit of Time Warner Inc.

[imarocker]

AOL ****s, it always has and it always will, i hate them with a ****ing passion.

[macca]

AOHell lives up to thier despicable name. You stand a better chance of NOT getting infected by being with the village whore.

[imarocker]

i couldnt agree more macca, they are absolutely the WORST Internet provider and one of the worst Spywares around, they should be shot....i have them blocked so many ways it aint funny.

[chinarain62]

Well, looks like they rode the wave for a while and like the saying goes, all good things must come to an end. I never had AOL, but I can sympathize with the stories I have heard.

[zebrarette]

Being an AOL customer for quite some time...I have had my share of problems with their service...I'm going to be changing to another ISP here in the next week or so. It's time for a change.

[GuitarPLYR]

AOL is the absolute worst. I have friends complaining all the time about pop-ups and what they can do to get rid of them. The first thing I tell them to do is lose the AOL!!!!

I don't think they will be attracting too many customers anymore with offering only dial-up access.

[macca]

Another instance where bigger is NOT best.