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Technology Stocks : America On-Line (AOL)
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To: jhg_in_kc who wrote (24879)7/5/1999 7:17:00 AM
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Re: Why would anyone pay 22 a month as I am now doing if a comparable service were free?

Answer: Content, Mobile access, Chat features, Keeping ones email address, User friendliness, One stop shopping to name a few reasons.

I like AOL,s aggressiveness but it worries me that if a giant marketing push were undertaken by giant companies like ATT/MSFT to provide FREE service that AOL might lose its membership base-and fast.

T and MSFT have both been in the ISP business about as long as AOL. Why does AOL have over half of the worlds ISP population? The # of AOL subscribers will exceed 35 million in two years. AOL consumes over 50% of the worlds manufactured compact disks and uses them to spam the world with AOL access.
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