Thom,
Any single company that has over 7,000,000 customers subscribing
to their services would be one that should be considered for
acquistion by a long-distance company. This acquistion would
bring under that company complete ISP provisioning equipment,
software, engineers, etc. That company would have over 7,000,000
potiential customers for their long-distance service (short those
that already used that company for their LD service). If we were
to say that 50% of the customers switched their LD service to the
acquiring company and on avg they spent $25.00/month on LD service.
That would be $1,050,000,000.00 (just over 1 billion) per year.
That income is in addition to the ISP income comming from the AOL
service itself.
Given that the AOL cap is currently about 3 billion dollars, even
with a premium that would bring the cost up to about 4-5 billion
dollars it is a company that looks good for being bought.
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