They're going to sell about five of them. I'm all for integration, and I think customers are, too, but this is way too expensive for the market right now. It's ideal for college students, but they're exactly the ones who can't afford this.
Joe Laszlo
There was this assumption that as soon as people got a notion for what broadband was, they would want it -- that it would be as automatic in some ways as adoption of the dial-up Internet was in the U.S., where growth was very quick and almost happened by itself as opposed to really needing to be sold.
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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 certainly has not been adoption at the rate that some companies in the industry, some of the early entrants among the broadband providers, were expecting.
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It's interesting this announcement comes so soon on the heels of the Time Warner deal
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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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What they're left with is figuring out a better message around why broadband is worth it.
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I think there is room for some new communications application to come out of left field and surprise everybody.
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People realize it's not a good idea to put all your eggs in one basket.
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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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