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Technology Stocks : Compaq -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MeDroogies who wrote (74645)	12/29/1999 4:16:00 PM
From: David R. Schaller	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

It's not clear to me that adding a free service to the bundle of software already provided would be terribly expensive. AV is looking for subscribers...it seems like a natural tie-in. A newbie buying his/her first computer wants internet access. If they find they have a lot of use for it, maybe AV can provide an upgraded service (for a charge of course) More importantly, as a sales incentive, it will be perceived as value added to the new computer purchase. I wouldn't be a bit surprised to see something of this type tried.