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To: craig crawford who wrote (12729)12/29/1997 12:06:00 AM
From: WBendus  Read Replies (1) of 45548
 
Craig,

In my opinion both Yahoo and AOL are extremely over priced. AOL is being priced by its subscriber growth, which I think stands to suffer from extremely stiff competition from cable companies as they begin to make faster connections cheaper.

I currently use Prodigy Internet for my ISP and I am seriously considering the switch to Time Warner's Road Runner service. I currently pay $20 a month for Prodigy, $20 for the 2nd phoneline and $15 for a subscription to Market Guide Company reports, making my monthly costs $55. If I switch to Road Runner it would cost me a $50 one time setup fee, which would include the cost of the NIC, cable modem and software, and $35 a month for the service and $20 for Market Guide on the web; a total cost of $57.08 a month, including a 24 month cost recover for the setup.

When Road Runner comes down or Prodigy goes up in price, I will swap. The only thing holding me back now is the fact that I have already established data files based on the prodigy market guide data formats.

For anyone else, the switch should be much easier. Imagine what it would be like if Time Warner dropped their price to $25 a month. I suspect that the do not have the capacity to offer such a subscription price but when they do, look out.

Wayde.
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