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Technology Stocks : America On-Line: will it survive ...? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Todd Daniels who wrote (6702)	1/7/1998 2:05:00 AM
From: White Shoes	Respond to of 13594

Yes, high speed access is the issue. People will be signing up with utility companies in droves, lured by dealing with the people who already supply them with phone/cable; speed; competitive pricing. At that point AOL becomes a Website. Who needs AOL, just get generic Web access & choose your own content. Or find a website that can help you choose your own content (My Excite! for example, 100's of others.) Someday AOL will be just another website. Through various partnerships it will probably survive...but all this mumbo jumbo about AOL as a content provider or onramp to the net is silly because the same applies to dozens of other entities.