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Technology Stocks : America On-Line: will it survive ...?
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To: Sam who wrote (4560)8/21/1997 12:20:00 PM
From: jack rand   of 13594
 
>Online services haven't been around that long.
>We are in uncharted territory.

AOL began in 1985, Compuserve in 1979.

>certain laws and measures do not translate well into this
>new online medium. A simple exercise in nexus issues for tax
>purposes illustrates my point.

Cite one other than taxes.

>Things such as CHURN, SUBSCRIBER BASE, NETWORK
>CAPACITY/ACTIVITY, etc. all have a material affect

Of course. But what matters in the end is profit.
And, if those measures are so material to you guys, why don't you put
AOL's feet to the fire to provide appropriately detailed disclosure
of them? For example, AOL refuses to give metrics or numbers
regarding churn. You just take it at its word that churn is at its
lowest in two years. Based upon what definition of churn? Including
trial subs? Excluding them? Including subs not paying given free
month(s) when they called to cancel? And so on and so on.

And what is "pure" internet access? That implies there's another
type that AOL users do. ("impure"?).
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