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To: the Druid who wrote (7779)	2/13/1998 8:23:00 AM
From: Hawk	Respond to of 13594

I don't subscriber count is that important if your not making any money. You could have one zillion subscribers and be loosing money. Earnings is what counts, the bottom line. Thats were AOL is in trouble. H.

To: the Druid who wrote (7779)	2/13/1998 8:24:00 AM
From: prakash	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13594

In the first place, AOL is loosing customers, they managed to add some over the holidays, but with the 10% increase in a cut-throat competition business, lots of people are already leaving, now add little bit of busy signal and a lousy customer service. Let's assume that you are right and AOL has 24M by year end. They can't support the existing 11M without having a busy signal, just imagine how much more money they would need to support other 24M without having problems. The money that they spend on the infrastructure -IS- going to get into the bottom line. By the time they improve their infrastructure to support such a mass, Cable modem would have made its debut in almost all the cities. Then its dejavu all other again. Prakash