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To: RTev who wrote (4445)	2/6/1999 6:31:00 AM
From: tang	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 41369

Rtev, thanks for sharing your logic with this free dial-up subject. You stated the good reason why local phone companies do not want to offer free dial-up because most of them are ISP and collecting fee for that dial-up services in addition to their monthly baisc phone charge, it is like double charge for the same service for people who are using them as ISP as well, hmmmmm, could be a growing revenue for the foreseeable future, definitely not wise to lose them. Now, small timers cannot afford a network of free dial-up for all so they eventually die out because their plan of having enough eyeballs to attract advertisement will fail. Unlike the Britain or Euro, they charge for local call by the minutes, the more you stay online, they more they gets, so they welcome ISPs to offer free dial-up for users to hook up longer on their line to pay more user fee, I think AOL will seek larege phone comapanies in Europe to do the same so their monthly ISP fee can be replaced by sharing hook-up fees with the phone companies. AOL won't have to do the same in USA because your stated reasons. I cannot stop thinking that somewhere in the future AOL will team up or being bought by some phone companies to offer free dial-up and collecting fees from ads and because of more eyeballs so more ads $$ to compensate the monthly ISP charges, at that particular time, AOL will be trueful by its name. Thanks.