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...situation is serious enough, however, that Case says he will rely more heavily on his founding fraternity to set the company right. AOL's cash cow is its 26 million U.S. subscribers, most of whom pay $23.90 a month for AOL's dial-up service. Almost half of that subscription revenue represents pure profit. But the U.S. dial-up market is already close to 60% saturation and isn't expected to hit 70% before 2005. AOL subscriber growth this year is estimated to drop to about 10%, just a third of its torrid pace...
...division's long-term-growth gambit is to attract as many of its dial-up customers as possible into the promised land of broadband, where they would pay more--eventually as much as $200 a month, in Pittman's rosy scenario--for a variety of on-demand services, from wireless instant messaging to the ability to listen to Norah Jones or watch A Beautiful Mind anytime they like...
Once the service is up and running, you quickly forget you're talking over the Internet. Really. Pick up the phone, and you hear a regular old dial tone, and anyone calling you will hear the usual ringing noise. The sound quality is crisp and clear. I won't say it's perfect--there's a slightly hollow, tinny quality--but unless you're planning to listen to Mahler's Fifth over the phone, it's no big deal. And there are other perks besides the price. At Vonage's website you can access a list of your last...
...Richardson, Texas, and showed off the phones that will be debuting this week at the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association trade fair in Orlando, Florida. (Note to my editor: I'd like the Q105 with the one-button Web-access feature that delivers info at 546 KBPS, as fast as dial up at home...
...pick up the phone and dial +387-66-222-305, you could win anywhere from $250 to $5,000,000. It's not one of Bosnia's numerous call-in quiz shows, nor is it the state lottery. It's the U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo's hotline for information on the whereabouts of Radovan Karadzic and General Ratko Mladic, the two top wartime leaders of Bosnian Serbs who are now Europe's most-wanted war crimes suspects. the whole story...