Rtev, thanks for sharing your logic with this free dial-up subject.
You stated the good reason why local phone companies do not want
to offer free dial-up because most of them are ISP and collecting
fee for that dial-up services in addition to their monthly baisc
phone charge, it is like double charge for the same service for
people who are using them as ISP as well, hmmmmm, could be a growing
revenue for the foreseeable future, definitely not wise to lose them.
Now, small timers cannot afford a network of free dial-up for all so
they eventually die out because their plan of having enough eyeballs
to attract advertisement will fail.
Unlike the Britain or Euro, they charge for local call by the minutes,
the more you stay online, they more they gets, so they welcome ISPs to
offer free dial-up for users to hook up longer on their line to
pay more user fee, I think AOL will seek larege phone comapanies in
Europe to do the same so their monthly ISP fee can be replaced by
sharing hook-up fees with the phone companies.
AOL won't have to do the same in USA because your stated reasons.
I cannot stop thinking that somewhere in the future AOL will team up
or being bought by some phone companies to offer free dial-up and
collecting fees from ads and because of more eyeballs so more ads $$
to compensate the monthly ISP charges, at that particular time, AOL
will be trueful by its name.
Thanks.
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