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AOL/TW Plans for $230 Monthly Cable Bill

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the one-wire-to-bind-them-all dept.

Jonathan Campbell writes: "According to the article, subscribers will get over the sticker shock preferring convenience over price." Yay, it'll be so convenient having one company control my television, internet access and phone service. I can hardly wait.

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  1. Want a new free car? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Our car-manufacturing company has developed a new revolutionary business model for making cars.

    We give away the cars for free and then we sell services for those cars! If you want to we can clean your car, wax it or you can use some of our other services.

    We get cash from a couple of VC's, the rest of them simple don't "get it". If we need more we just call "the suits".

  2. Re:Pay for usage? by O · · Score: 2, Funny

    Heh, I think that's called a leased-line or a T1 or something...

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  3. For 230 dollars by gelfling · · Score: 5, Funny

    they have to provide a midget to change the channels for me, and serve me food.

    1. Re:For 230 dollars by manly · · Score: 2, Funny

      You can have the midget,

      I'll take one of the AOL (NS, ICQ, Winamp, yada yada) TW Sports Illustrated swimsuit models.

  4. new aol message by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    "you have bills!"

  5. For everything else... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Basic Cable: $60
    3 Premium Channels: $25
    DSL Connection: $45
    Basic Phone Services: $30
    Some hellspawned idea about "convenience over price": $70
    A monopoly and the knowledge you can get away with the latter: Priceless

    There are some things money can't buy. For others, there's AOL

  6. Why This Will Work... by guttentag · · Score: 5, Funny
    Let's pull out marketing's trusty "Stupidity-Laziness Curve," shall we?

    \
    \P=People
    P\W=Wealth
    ___\_
    W

    At one end of the curve you have people who have made enough money to afford this service, but they have become lazy enough to pay the extra $70/month for the "convenience."

    At the other end of the curve are the people who can't afford the service but are stupid enough to believe it's of value, so they subscribe anyway.

    The distribution of people on this curve is great enough that the service sells and becomes a model for other other companies to copy.

  7. Re:Hmm... by tftp · · Score: 5, Funny
    don't be surprised if the news coming out of the member companies -- CNN for instance -- starts to become blatantly biased.

    I guess you don't watch TV...

  8. Econ... by ocie · · Score: 5, Funny

    This must be why I did so poorly in my econ class. I thought that allowing companys to merge and destroy competition lowered prices and improved service to customers. Good thing I got this cushy programmer's job:)

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  9. Re:$1,984,177.35 by Rude+Turnip · · Score: 2, Funny

    I didn't know my grandmother read Slashdot. Hi, Grandmom!

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