AOL Dial-Up Accounts Expected To Dwindle
from the not-good-for-business dept
Last quarter was the first time that AOL announced that all total, they had a net loss on new subscribers to their dialup offerings. So, it hasn't been a huge surprise that they've (finally) realized they need to start promoting the hell out of their broadband offerings (though, it may be too little, too expensive, too late). Now, they're finally admitting that they expect the number of dialup cusotmers to continue to drop over time. Of course, it doesn't take a genius to predict such things. The real question remains as to why it's taken them so long to realize this. Most people would have predicted this years ago.
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