AOL American Online Lowers FEES then Raises them AGAIN!

[hdtvtechno]

AOL Drops Prices
Dial-up: $20, BYOA: $10

Feeling the pinch from both discount dial-up providers and broadband competitors for years, AOL has finally lowered their prices. The company is now offering unlimited dial-up for $19.95 (still too expensive, but it used to be almost $24) and their BYOA (bring your own access) broadband-centric service for $9.95 (used to be $15). Some users are offered the BYOA service for as low as $5 if they threaten to cancel.

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/62860

 

[Ceas2182]

Man, I wish AOL lowered the price somemore... if it was $9, I would go for it. I had AOL before. When I tried to cancel they were begging me not to go (it was suppose to be a 4 min call which lasted 20 mins) because of all the advertisements that the CS Reps say. I have gone to Netscape.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

AOL has its uses.

I use it so I can read the Gold area at another site.

AOL beats any online proxy service because webmasters know they can't ban AOL from accessing their servers.

When do these new prices go into effect?

 

[hdtvtechno]

I bet right now

AOL has finally lowered their prices. The company is now offering unlimited dial-up for $19.95

 

[korsjs]

still too much, i pay 29.95 for dsl.

 

[Stargazer]

I am going to go from EarthLink (currently $21.99/mo or $19.99/mo if you prepay for a year) to Netscape which is $9.99 once my subscription is up and try it out for a month to see how I like it. I had one person tell me bad things about Netscape. I have had very few issues with EarthLink disconnecting me. I like the Accelerator software. Netscape is supposed to come with it included. Its about time that AOL dropped their price.

 

[Ceas2182]

Star,
Netscape is very good in my opinion. I had no problems. Had Netscape for 4 months. The speed is much better than net zero and aol.

 

[kbohip]

$20 a month for dial-up is still a total ripoff. When I used to have dial-up I had 550 Access for $5.50 a month.

 

[Stargazer]

EarthLink just recently enhanced their web browser accelerator software for pictures. Still if I am going to save $10-12 a month then that little bit of enhancement will not make much of a difference.

I cannot wait until Internet 2 will be available over dialup which would make having high speed irrelevant since its so much faster (or the other type of technology I heard that is supposed to make the internet much faster).

 

[hdtvtechno]

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I cannot wait until Internet 2 will be available over dialup which would make having high speed irrelevant since its so much faster (or the other type of technology I heard that is supposed to make the internet much faster).

You can't make the dialup any faster, cause POTS lines only support 56kbs

 

[Stargazer]

i am talking about the internet in itself faster, not the actual speed over the line. I read where they were going to make it to where the internet would require much less bandwidth to access the sites and do other functions online.

 

[hdtvtechno]

Guess what ? AOL changed their minds, and raising its prices again

Guess what ? AOL changed their minds, and raising its prices again

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/63712

 

[Stargazer]

What the heck is up with that? This will make them look bad as a company to drop the rates just to raise them again. Maybe they figured that it would be more profitable to charge more at the higher rate than the additional subs they would get at the lower rate.

 

[hdtvtechno]

yup, i was allready been charged the 23.90 fee

 

[JamesJ]

well aol is free if you have roadrunner, so when I get that installed here in a little bit I will be able to use there program (music and such) for free, unless you guys have a better free music site (like radio, live performances and things of that nature!)

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

I have updated the title of this thread.

I actually use AOL, but the only reason I use it is so I can browse some sites (and areas of sites) without being detected as I am coming from an AOL.COM address. This way they can't detect me, and they are not going to ban everyone from AOL from accessing their site.

 

[LonghornXP]

well aol is free if you have roadrunner, so when I get that installed here in a little bit I will be able to use there program (music and such) for free, unless you guys have a better free music site (like radio, live performances and things of that nature!)

Its not free to all Road Runner customers yet as far as I know but if I'm wrong please point this out to me. I think a few areas in SC and NY have AOL with Road Runner.