Existing broadband users were the early adopters who used to pay for the dial-up wait and they got impatient with it, which is why they switched over to broadband, ... We see a slowing down in broadband growth partly because most of the low-hanging fruit of early adopters have been harvested by broadband providers.
Quotes about dial-up (16 Quotes)
Given their overall strategy in the Web portal business, (AOL) wants fewer, if any, dial-up customers. I think it is part of a strategy to basically shake out of its base the people who are likely high-speed subscribers.
This is yet another example of how AOL is becoming a company that's all about broadband. There's no question that all the forecasts point to the dial-up subscriber count decreasing in the next few years. AOL understands that.
We continue to be concerned with the weakness in the online business, particularly among dial-up customers,
I felt like I was the only one in the world left on dial-up.
What is special about VOIP is that it's just another thing you can do on the Internet, whereas it is the only thing - or nearly the only thing with the exception of the dial-up modem and fax - that you can do on the public switched telephone network.
The issue is that the remaining pool of dial-up users today is a different demographic category. A couple years back, you had people making the bit-per-buck calculation ... which prompted them to switch. The existing pool of dial-up users is not accessing as many bits.
They put up good advertising sales, but had more dial-up (subscriber) losses than I was looking for.
Every dial-up customer we convert to D.S.L. takes one customer off the table for cable modem. We have a price for every budget.
We're starting to let AOL members know about this opportunity now to strongly encourage them to improve their online experience with a better, faster Internet connection. AOL is committed to offering our members the best high-speed experience - not just faster dial-up but true broadband from a cable or DSL connection. We've seen in recent market tests that our members respond very strongly to the ability to more simply combine what they have from AOL with what they want from a broadband connection, and now we're going to deliver it from coast to coast.
The problem is when an unauthorized third party, such as an ISP, puts an interception proxy between its dial-up customers and the 'Net,' ... They're imposing themselves between the end user and the content provider - two parties that expect integrity of communications.
You are seeing a bit of a stalling in the growth of the dial-up market. It is still growing, but at a much less vigorous pace than last year. Subscribers are beginning to convert over to DSL, or cable modems, and that's eating into some of the incremental growth of the existing Internet Service Providers (ISPs). But I think the ISPs have a real opportunity to convert their existing dial-up subscribers into broadband subscribers. In fact, they have a better opportunity than any other players out there but, in order to recapture Wall Street attention, they have to begin to make that happen in a meaningful fashion,
At this point, we continue to have a vendorclient relationship with both of these companies. This legal dispute stretches beyond the Cape and Islands and could potentially impact all dial-up users across the nation.
The Internet is quickly becoming a broadband tool. Most people do not get value in a dial-up world anymore.
I'm sure one of the clauses in AOL's deal with broadband partners was a fairly hefty commitment as far as how many customers would make the switch. Two dollars removes any sort of price-related inertia that their dial-up customers might feel.
AOL's dial-up business is a classic cash cow -- hugely profitable today but inexorably declining. Take out AOL's Internet access business, and you still have a new-media powerhouse.