AOL, U.S. Bells in Talks on High-Speed Online Service, WSJ Says
By Jonathan Make
Dulles, Virginia, May 7 (Bloomberg) -- America Online
Inc., an Internet service provider, is in talks with U.S. local
phone companies to start a nationwide network for digital
subscriber line -- or DSL -- high-speed Internet service, the
Wall Street Journal said, citing unnamed sources. AOL, which
won't bid for MediaOne Group Inc. for a cable broadband network,
is talking with companies such as GTE Corp., U S West Inc. and
BellSouth Corp., and is also talking with personal computer
makers like Compaq Corp. to make purchasing DSL easier. AOL
President Bob Pittman told the Journal that DSL is a ''fabulous
technology,'' and customers already ''think of the Internet as a
telephone service.'' |
