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Technology Stocks : America On-Line: will it survive ...?
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To: Sam who wrote (8836)3/16/1998 5:27:00 PM
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Everyone loves the idea of broadband, because everyone loves bandwith. Now, it is true that you don't have to dial up, you are logged on 24/7. What everyone fails to realize is that once this technology grows and reaches mass media size, bandwith will dwindle. Everyone always brings up busy signals with AOL - the reason is bandwith! If AOL only had million subs, you would never get a busy signal. The only other option is building out the network, which AOL has done.

AOL has severe problems RIGHT NOW with 11 million dial-up subscribers connecting at 33.3K to 56K. Busy signal is still common in many cities. In contrast, the Internet is doing just fine handling all the dial-up users from all ISP's. As more broadband come on-line, you can bet the Internet will improve accordingly. Going back to AOL again, I don't see its plan to switch to TCP/IP or set-top capable. How will it handle broadband?

So now its broadband technology the bears are latching on to as the next enemy. I'm telling everyone on this thread now - broadband is not the enemy. AOL will leverage its position and use broadband to its advantage.

You better explain this. Because very few of today's broadband clients use AOL. How will AOL leverage its position against non-customers?!
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