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AOL Reports Its First Drop In Subscribers

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the you've-got-broadband dept.

Flamesplash writes "Yahoo! is running this AP story about AOL's first drop in subscribers. 170,000 US subscribers have left AOL in their fourth quarter of 2002, apparently due to users becoming more comfortable with broadband connections. It should be noted though that 'AOL has said it has stopped simply signing up new customers for the sake of counting them.'"

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  1. It's a conspiracy ! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    It's all a trick! AOL is actually involved in a conspiracy with RMS, Linus Torvalds and Lawrence Lessig to cover the dumps of the world with enough aluminized plastic discs to increase the continent's average reflectivity, causing a new Ice Age. Once temperatures drop to below freezing all over the globe...

    Penguins will rule the Earth!

    Of course, I could be wrong...

  2. Just one? by Rai · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I can think of several that need to go.