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

To: Paul Houle who wrote (6714)	1/7/1998 2:42:00 AM
From: White Shoes	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13594

Paul, my point is, a phone company can just as easily come up with an internet service with a cute name, a free disk, easy installation, and a copy of Netscape with presets to...you guessed it, the phone company's "AOL-like" home page. It's virtually the same thing. Yep, for now AOL has that market. But for how long? TERRIBLE service compared to what you'll get from your utility company (I live in Canada, and Bell Canada and Rogers Cable both offer user-friendly packages...few people of any technical competence are frightened off by Bell's ISP service which is called Sympatico). There is also an AOL Canada (how odd)...though this part of the planet seems to be less covered in free AOL CD's these days... Check out sympatico.ca (and click on "Ontario"). No AOL perhaps, but I find one interface as good as the next since all I'm going to do is go to SI and check my e-mail anyway.