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AOL To Be Free For Broadband Users?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the already-have-the-intertron-thanks dept.

mikesd81 writes "AOL may give away more services including its AOL.com accounts reserved for paying customers. They have a proposal under consideration which calls for Time Warner's online unit to stop charging subscription fees to users who have high-speed Internet access or even dial-up service from a rival provider. Under the plan the company would continue to charge the fees for those needing dial-up access through AOL. The AOL software also would allow subscribers to continue using instant messaging, Web journals and other services without having to download separate software or figure out Web-based options. That would ease the transition and encourage them to keep using AOL services, the person familiar with the matter said."

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  1. Yea, but... by Bakadan · · Score: 5, Funny

    then you'd have to use AOL.

  2. If AOL were free . . . by cashman73 · · Score: 5, Funny

    . . . only newbies would use AOL. Oh, wait! ;-)

  3. Q: Does it still suck? by Shadow+Wrought · · Score: 5, Funny

    A: Yes, but it sucks 10 times faster.

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  4. Re:Can someone tell me? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    me too!

  5. So? by grub · · Score: 5, Funny


    I could get AIDS for free, too. That doesn't make it desirable.

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  6. Strings attached! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The AOL access may be free, but they are going to start charging for the install CDs.

  7. AOL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I guess too many people figured out AOL wasn't 'The Internet'?

  8. AOL is the epitomy of corporate addware by rucs_hack · · Score: 5, Interesting

    My mother (in spite of my protestations) has used AOL for years.

    She's stopping now though, because even though she pays a high monthly subscription, she gets bombarded with adverts from AOL, even while their addware and spyware 'zapper' is running.
    There are even usually two adverts on the logoff screen.

    I can't beleive it, but they've actually managed to suck more.

  9. How can I lose? by Kev_Stewart · · Score: 5, Funny

    Bang that crayon a little further up my nose, Moe. Woo hoo! AOL! How can I lose?

  10. Wasn't AOL always free ? by Sohil · · Score: 5, Funny

    I mean they never let you cancel. "Please try AOL free for 50 more days"

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  11. Re:Can someone tell me? by PMuse · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What is the point of AOL?

    Those who have been saying for years that AOL content adds no value to what can be had in the wilds of the internet now have proof: Time-Warner will stop charging for AOL content.

    What a long, embarrassing fall for the online company whose stock was once so valuable that it could buy a major cable company!

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