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To: Steve Robinett who wrote (5995)11/17/1997 1:54:00 AM
From: Investor-ex!  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 13594
 
Steve,

They sure can't afford to cut any customer service personnel, or sales , or marketing, or internal web development and admin!

With the Worldcom deal, do you think they would just dump the technical people they have supporting their modems, or would those folks become de facto Worldcom employees?

Of course if they were eliminated, those associated costs would just become a long-term chargeback to AOL as part of the service Worldcom agreed to provide to AOL as an ISP provider. But you can almost bet AOL won't spin it that way, at least not initially.



To: Steve Robinett who wrote (5995)11/17/1997 9:47:00 AM
From: Harry Larson  Respond to of 13594
 
>>They're still digesting Compuserve's customers.

Until the deal with WCOM closes, which AOL has said will be
in March Q, AOL has no hands on CSi. In fact the SEC-filed
agreements between WCOM and CSRV/HRB/AOL contain covenants
to that effect.

IOW, CSi has been on its own since the 09/08 announcement,
and will be until at least March. CSRV's Q2 report, due 11/20
should be interesting, especially re. sub count.


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