[Fwd:AOL Tells Customers to Find New Carrier]

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From: Brad <brad2891@vaxeo.com>
To: WISP@part-15.org
Subject: [WISP] AOL Tells Customers to Find New Carrier
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 21:23:31 -0600

AOL Tells Customers to Find New Carrier
 
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=562&ncid=738&e=1&u=/ap/20041112/ap_on_hi_te/aol_broadband
 
DULLES, Va. - America Online, which earlier this year stopped signing up
new broadband customers, is telling existing broadband subscribers in
nine Southern states that they must find a new broadband carrier by Jan.
17.
 
Those customers who do not switch to a new broadband carrier by that
date will have their accounts revert to AOL's traditional dialup
service, said AOL spokeswoman Anne Bentley.
 
The company has been e-mailing its customers in those nine states that
they can switch to high-speed broadband service offered by BellSouth
Corp. for a special promotional rate.
 
Most of AOL's 23 million subscribers receive standard dialup service for
$24 a month. The company will not disclose how many customers still
receive the $54 monthly broadband service, which Bentley acknowledged is
relatively expensive compared to other broadband pricing packages now
available to consumers.
 
Bentley said she expects AOL will phase out existing broadband customers
in the rest of the country in a similar manner over the next year.
 
The affected states are Florida, Kentucky, Georgia, Louisiana, Alabama,
Mississippi, Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina.
 
America Online is a unit of Time Warner Inc.

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