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To: Phil Levy who wrote (213)	10/2/1996 9:02:00 PM
From: Art Stone	of 13594

<< Although they will see tremendous pressure on subscriber revenue (either lower rates and/or usage), >> There are several reports in the Usenet newsgroup alt.aol-sucks that AOL is starting to move selected users to a two-tiered pricing plan - where Internet Access is flat-rate ($14.95/month) and "Content based" online time will be on the billing clock. Let's see - if I'm online on AOL and I have the choice of (1) using AOL chat at $2.95 an hour or (2) using IRC on AOL's servers for free, this becomes a really tough choice... (Sarcasm alert). Let's see, if I'm online on AOL, and I can download my email (and cyberpomo's "stuff") from AOL for $2.95/hour or I connect to juno.com using Eudora or Agent and download my email for free, what would I do? Of course, this is a microcosm of AOL's fundamental problem. It is just going to become all that more obvious to AOL's naive user base.

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