AOL continues to bleed subscribers, the internet arm of giant media outfit Time Warner confirmed yesterday.It shed 2.3m customers in the year to the end of March taking its total subscriber base to 21.7m. Or to put it another way, it lost 549,000 punters in the first three months of the year.
In Europe, the ISP added an extra 18,000 subscribers in Q1 taking the number of net users to 6.3m. Overall, though, AOL Europe still managed to lose 69,000 customers compared to the same quarter last year.
The ongoing slide in numbers hit subscription revenues leading to a fall of eight per cent ($145m) to $1.77bn for the three months to the end of March. Although advertising revenues were up 45 per cent ($97m) to $311m, overall revenues for Q1 were down 3 per cent ($58m) to $2.1bn from $2.19bn.
Operating income rose 17 per cent ($47m) to $324m. Of course, AOL isn't just twiddling its fingers hoping for the tide to turn: the company last month made its much anticipated jump into the internet telephony business. At the same time, it has also moved to cut overheads. In December, AOL chopped 750 workers from its HQ in Northern Virginia, three weeks after announcing plans to split the business into four divisions. Axing four per cent of the workforce also cuts costs as the ISP giant battles to cope with falling customer numbers.<
If you're not satisfied with the internet you have....get a better internet with AOL.
CAPITAL punishment for infringement is a CAPITAList's dream.
:icon_puke:icon_pukeOriginally Posted by Ne007
kill aol aol must die
A world of invisible people. We pass them without seeing them, as casually and indifferently as we pass our own reflections in store front windows. Do they really live among us? Or are they citizens of another country, a vast and teaming gulag of the dispossessed. No, don't turn away. Look in their faces. Do you see your brother? Your mother? An old friend? Someone you went to school with? Someone you once loved? No? You didn't see them? Not today. Tomorrow you could.
Couldn't possibly be partly due to thier billing practices eh? I've had broadband for over three years, and have had to fight AOL at least once a year for billing me for service. Hello? My comp isn't even connected to a phone line!
“The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.” - Florence Nightingale
More and more people are becoming aware of AOL and their tactics. That is why you see them leaving like rats off a sinking ship. A family man I know used to subscribe to aol, but when he tried to go to his favorite GUN WEBSITE....he found out it was blocked by AOL. He called them and explained that he was a hunter and interested in guns, but they would not unblock the site because they said it had to do with guns. And they block anything to do with any sort of violence...yes as stupid as it sounds...even hunting gun sites!
So he told them to go take a long walk off a short pier and switched to another provider. He has had that same ISP for years. It is AOLs fault that a lot of this is happening to them, if it is not their stupid policies that drive people away, it is their stupid billing practices!
I think it is about time they got their due!
aol is lame in 2 aspects. service wise quality sucks. secondly and most importantly there bulky software is such a pos it uses LOADS of ram and other vital system resources witch is so annoying bogs down the whole operation. good riddance!
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its about time... i havnt heard a positive thing about AOL in years, even from the type of idiots that would use their service because they need the fake simplicity. why this has taken so long is beyond me
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