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To: Eric Wells who wrote (72148)	8/5/1999 1:32:00 PM
From: Olu Emuleomo	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 164684

>>>Keep in mind that AOL recently announced offering free access in the UK to counter competition there.<<< Dont be fooled. It is NOT free. AOL gets a share of the per minute access charges levied by the phone cos over there! In europe, the telephone access charges are quite steep! --Olu E.

To: Eric Wells who wrote (72148)	8/5/1999 9:44:00 PM
From: Tom Kearney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

Eric - Again, I am focusing on how people decide which service to use. Yahoo has free auctions - EBAY has 40 times more auction business. SQL Server costs a fraction of Oracle, and are making progress, yet Oracle holds their own in the server database market. Why does AOL have 17 million members, and MSN 2 million, now? Aren't there lots of services with cheaper prices than AOL? What is AOLs edge? And we've all known that AOL ultimately must become a giant e-commerce player to justify their valuation. I just dropped AOL - to get DSL which they didn't offer; I've paying $40/month, now. The reason I had AOL in the 1st place was I wanted a larger service than my local ISP, so that I wouldn't have to change e-mail addresses again. ('Nother great idea bites the dust.) All I'm saying, and all I said in my initial post is, I don't think it is a slam dunk. There are many other factors. Regards, Tom

To: Eric Wells who wrote (72148)	8/6/1999 12:45:00 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

Tom - to add to my previous post - you also have to consider the very large number of people that currently are not on the internet - both in the US and outside the US. These people have no knowledge of features provided by AOL's access service - and I would guess that when many of these people decide to get on the net, their choice of ISP will be influenced by price. Eric, They will be influenced by what their friends recommend. Not price. Glenn