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To: Brian K Crawford who wrote (992)	1/10/1997 2:15:00 PM
From: Harry Larson	of 13594

Below from a 01/09 CNET story in which AOL Marketing VP is quoted. Appears to say only 500K adds in Q2! Current user/modem ratio 30:1 ! (usual standard 10-15:1) www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,6886,4000.html The good news is that people are logging onto AOL in record numbers, Gang said. But that's also the bad news. While AOL can now boast 7.5 million members--a growth of half a million in just a few months--it also has to deal with users who are constantly frustrated by busy signals when they try to get onto the service. ....... Gang assured that those days of hair-pulling will be over in a few months. AOL installed nearly 20,000 new modems in December and will continue installing 30,000 new modems a month through June. The goal? To have enough modems to allow 400,000 users by July 1 to be able to simultaneously dial in. Currently, there's enough capacity for 250,000 users at once.

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