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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Holy mackerel. ... That's not small beans in these jaded times.
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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.
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Some will see this as the apocalypse while others see this as natural evolution.
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People realize it's not a good idea to put all your eggs in one basket.
field left room surprise
I think there is room for some new communications application to come out of left field and surprise everybody.
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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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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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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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I think all (the IM companies) think that this is an idea whose time has finally come. All of them realize that while voice chatting between IM users is a nice thing, what they really need to do longer term in order to make the platform more viable is make that connection out to the phone networks.
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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.
faces within
Within the U.S., it's a pretty iffy model. FON faces some real problems.
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Together, they emit 1,500 pounds of mercury annually.
direct indirect
There aren't a lot of direct synergies here. But there are a lot of indirect synergies.