Joe Laszlo
Joe Laszlo
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AOL's (customer) base has been with AOL for a long time and has long-established relationships with people. Your online identity is defined by your e-mail address and online or screen name. AOL does community very well.
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We see a fair amount of resistance...not a lot of interest to switch from dial-up to broadband.
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ISPs' rhetoric is increasingly strident about content from outside providers raising the costs of their networks. But I haven't seen hard data that suggests the volume of legitimate video is coming close to swamping ISP networks yet.
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E-mail addresses inherently are tied to the provider in the way that a phone number is not tied to a wireless carrier or phone company.
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People realize it's not a good idea to put all your eggs in one basket.
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Some will see this as the apocalypse while others see this as natural evolution.
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The AOL/Time Warner merger could really bring broadband from the cutting-edge, early adapter users to mass-market consumers, something AOL excels in,
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Should service providers use existing wiring in the home, or should they use wireless? This is still an issue that is still very much open for debate.
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Together, they emit 1,500 pounds of mercury annually.
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Within the U.S., it's a pretty iffy model. FON faces some real problems.
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While this is unexpected, it indicates that AOL is remaining technologically agnostic. But I wouldn't expect AOL, if they expand DSL trials further, to compete in the same markets as Time Warner.
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For all the new-fangled things people like to talk about, the phone has been the phone for 100 years now,
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It's that performance improvement that content distributors have as their key value. By distributing content throughout the Internet, they can improve performance from an end-user's perspective.
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It's interesting this announcement comes so soon on the heels of the Time Warner deal. One of the synergies we see between AOL and Time Warner is TW giving AOL access to their cable.