AOL - High Speed Cable

[zscoundrel]

You will not see AOL high speed offered through TW cable access in a 
market until Road Runner - or whomever the default ISP partner was when 
TW started connecting broad band consumers - no longer holds a monopoly 
in that area.

An example would be de-regulation in the local telco industry.  SWB 
wants to get into the long distance business, but can't do so until the 
other local phone companies have at least 20% of the market.  Suddenly - 
BANG - there are billboards up all over town advising us to "fire" SWB 
and hire Birch, and if you look in the front of the phone book there are 
ADDs and contact info for OTHER PHONE COMPANIES!!!!  (Note: SWB is now 
known as SBC corp.)

I believe the FCC required TW to open the ISP market to the competition 
as part of the agreement to let AOL and TW merger.  This is why our Road 
Runner accounts didn't automatically become AOL accounts the day after 
the merger!  If you happen to visit some place that has a modern cable 
system that is not TW - you may see AOL being offered as an ISP via 
cable modem.

I am not going to flame someone for using AOL, but I will point out that 
Road Runner offers a dial up access option - which is currently FREE - 
to their high speed customers, so AOL is not a requirement for access on 
the road.

  Here is the link:

http://help.rr.com/getpage.asp?/faqs/e_dial_access_overview.html?topic=Dial+Access#pricing

I am still waiting for Everest to bring fiber to my back door.  One of 
the neighbors works for them and said (unofficially) that they should be 
in our area by the end of the year.  High Speed access, Voice, and 
Video.  Since it is buried, there should be no storm or drunk driver 
related outages to contend with.

John Lindinger wrote:

> You may be mixing apples and oranges. The AOL High Speed Broadband link presently on the
> www.aol.com page is selling DSL telephone service, not cable modem service.
> 
> Seems that the "Time Warner" half of "AOL Time Warner" has no intention of bundling AOL
> subscriptions with the RoadRunner high speed digital cable service. THAT'S GOOD!!!
> 
> Anybody who wants cable modem service, can have it without an AOL subscription.  If any
> RoadRunner user really wants to routinely hear that "You've Got Mail" jingle, they can
> get the $14.95/month AOL "bring-your-own-access " plan.  That's option #3 at...
> 
>    http://www.aol.com/info/pricing.html
> 
> By the way, now that I've shut off my dial-up ISP account, it's not as easy to connect my
> laptop to the internet when I travel, unless the hotel has an ethernet connection in the
> room (some do but it costs extra). 
> 
> So silly as it sounds, having the AOL software on my laptop, though not "cool", can be
> useful, because AOL does have access telephone numbers all over the country. I used AOL
> in the mid nineties for this very reason. The bring your own access plan was only
> $10/month then, and they charged by the hour when I did dial in on their telephone from a
> motel.
> 
> John Lindinger
> 
> PS - Okay, let the flames begin...
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --- jose sanchez <j_r_sanchez at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>>Hi:
>>
>>What you guys think about AOL-High Speed Cable.
>>Has anybody tried it?
>>
>>
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