AOL Over Time Warner Cable - Who would have thunk it?

AOL Over Time Warner Cable
Who would have thunk it?
(old news - 09:55AM Thursday Jun 16 2005)
tags: business · cable

We noted back in January: "When your parent company owns one of the largest media empires on the planet, as well as several ISPs and a cable company, you'd think the obvious course of action for AOL (to migrate customers to broadband) would have been apparent to AOL long ago." Yes, we've been harping on them for years.

Looks like someone at the media giant finally gets it, according to Red Herring: "Time Warner is considering packaging America Online with Time Warner Cable when the latter goes public next year. Two separate sources told the New York Post that Time Warner's management is considering combining the two units in light of recent changes in AOL's business."

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rrneteng Piedmont Triad Region join:2004-08-06 united state	YAWN Our division started this "roll out" about a week ago.
	permalink · 2005-06-16 10:00:50 ·

Karl Bode News Guy join:2000-03-02 edit: June 16th, @10:10AM	Re: YAWN I think you're confusing the company's plan to offer AOL to Roadrunner/TWC customers (announced months ago), with this suggestion of actually combining the two once TWC goes public....
	permalink · 2005-06-16 10:09:44 ·

rrneteng Piedmont Triad Region join:2004-08-06 united state	Re: YAWN Sadly no, I will double check with some standard CSR's but im pretty sure this is what we started about a week ago. Matter of fact we actually got pizza on behalf of AOL for this I think. Sadly though, I dont pay that much attention to that side of the field. -- Yeah, but at least I get cronjobs nightly.
	permalink · 2005-06-16 10:15:45 ·

Steve ho ho ho dammit Consultant join:2001-03-10 Yorba Linda, CA	Re: YAWN You don't pay attention to pizza? WTF is wrong with you?
	permalink · 2005-06-16 10:27:18 ·

SRFireside join:2001-01-19 Houston, TX	Re: YAWN More importantly... what KIND of pizza?
	permalink · 2005-06-16 11:04:00 ·

Karride Slower Traffic Keep Right Premium join:2000-04-17 Germantown, TN	And the whole world looks at AOL and says.... DUH!
	permalink · 2005-06-16 10:04:13 ·

Kfedka Premium join:2005-05-06 Spokane, WA	Re: And the whole world looks at AOL and says.... _ /\|\ \|What he said. Make that doubld duh!
	permalink · 2005-06-16 10:11:52 ·

ylen131 join:2000-02-09 Canoga Park, CA	NOOOOOOOOO aol get away from time Warner cable. AOL is garbage and no one should ever install it on there computer
	permalink · 2005-06-16 10:15:09 ·

JSRoman
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About time!

AOL serves 20-21 million customers. Strictly from a business standpoint they should have done this along time ago. Granted not many people that visit DDR most likely use AOL but there is still a crap load of folks who still live and die by AOL. A lot of folks who have not switched from dial up to broadband have not done so because they think it would be to complicated. AOL will help those folks take that giant step.

Can we stop bashing Amercian companies for like 5 minutes? Some of you people who want AOL to die should think of all the folks that work for AOL and grandma/grandpa who only connection to WWW is AOL.

permalink · 2005-06-16 10:41:03 · Print ·

bokamba Chengdu Rocks Premium join:2002-04-05 Falls Church, VA	Re: About time! I wouldn't call it bashing. I would call it mockery of a ridiculously poor business strategy.
	permalink · 2005-06-16 10:43:57 ·

grapkoski Premium join:2004-05-28 Tampa, FL clubs:	Re: About time! But it is one they are trying to correct, personally I think they will slowly be coming to their senses that the AOL client is a big waste of money and man power. But the content of AOL is far superior to any other Cable companies own portal.
	permalink · 2005-06-16 10:57:29 ·

hopeflicker Capitalism breeds greed Premium join:2003-04-03 Long Beach, CA	A lot of folks who have not switched from dial up to broadband have not done so because they think it would be to complicated. AOL will help those folks ~~take that giant step~~. turn their computers into spam zombies. Ohh, wait! That's right, they have that free anti-spyware and virus protection. NM, silly me
	permalink · 2005-06-16 10:58:35 ·

storm64007
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June 16th, @11:33AM

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A lot of folks who have not switched from dial up to broadband have not done so because they think it would be to complicated. AOL will help those folks ~~take that giant step~~. turn their computers into spam zombies.
Ohh, wait! That's right, they have that free anti-spyware and virus protection. NM, silly me

What i dont understand is that AOL DID THIS ALREADY 5 years ago. They offered AOL Broadband where they switched dial up users over to broadband (cable/time warner and DSL-whoever your telco was) and you were billed under AOL. I know..i had AOL broadband 3 years ago. Dont confuse this with BYOA..it was AOL BROADBAND.
They stopped offering AOL broadband about a year and a half ago.

permalink · 2005-06-16 11:30:54 · Print ·

djrobx

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Valencia, CA

·DSL EXTREME

CNN published a story about AOL buying Time Warner in January of 2000. Wouldn't the next logical step be to offer AOL via that giant cable company they just purchased? Of course it took some time to be approved, but that still gives the companies time to prepare their strategies. For AOL to go for over five years without utilizing TWC seems absolutely insane. Scratching your head at this lethargy has nothing to do with bashing AOL or its users. If you like AOL and want it to succeed, you'd want to see it available to TWC's 18.8 million homes, no?
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\\ROB - a part of the SCB local network

permalink · 2005-06-16 10:59:30 · Print ·

J D McDorce Premium join:2001-12-29 Westland, MI edit: June 16th, @11:45AM	Re: About time! Upon reflection, I do not wish to post. Take me back!
	permalink · 2005-06-16 11:37:35 ·

anonymon @verizon.n	a faster way to get spyware & malware hooooray! Bad for the consumer, great for me, keeps my pockets lined with green having to clean up/repair all the pcs that will be affected by more aol junk.:p
	permalink · 2005-06-16 12:15:00 ·

maartena
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I have RoadRunner....

I have RoadRunner cable from TWC. All I want is a TCP/IP connection as I have my own domain with e-mail, webspace, antivirus, antispam all built in, and I have my own firewall and antivirus on my computers.

If they require to install ANY software that even remotely smells lik AOL, I am dumping RoadRunner and switching to DSL.

I like RoadRunner, is has been working great for me for 3 years now. But I absolutely LOATHE AOL and ritually destroy the CD's I get sent about once a month.

There will be NO AOL whatsover on my computer.

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And i'm right. I'm always right, but this time I'm a little more right then I usually am.

permalink · 2005-06-16 12:31:22 · Print ·

Logwind join:2003-06-20	Re: I have RoadRunner.... I doubt you'll have to install anything you don't want to.
	permalink · 2005-06-16 12:42:10 ·

jammmin join:2000-12-14 Upper Marlboro, MD	Re: I have RoadRunner.... In the DC area, AOL offers broadband DSL for $29.99 a month. I am not sure what is the speed though. The service is through Covad.
	permalink · 2005-06-16 13:23:15 ·

ricep5
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Consent Decree

Lest memory serves, AOL had a consent decree when they merged with TW providing restrictions on what service markets they could enter and if they did, what terms they had to follow.

At the time AOL was the 200 pound bully and everyone was thinking they were going to migrate their market to other services.

I believe that decree expires this year. So while BBR may have been harping on them, there may have been legal reasons keeping them from entering new markets.

permalink · 2005-06-16 13:43:07 ·

hottboiinnc ME join:2003-10-15 Toledo, OH ·buckeye cable	Offered This before!! TWC offered this before. I had this service for about 6 months until AOL pulled AOL for Broadband and used BOYB and I got RR from TWC. So if they combine TWC and AOL are they going to make AOL the TWC ISP instead of RR or will RR take over AOL?
	permalink · 2005-06-16 22:49:26 ·

neo67 join:2005-06-19 Bronx, NY	Aol Timewarner I think Time warner should have put the two together a long time ago. If Timewarner does not put the two togeter Aol and Timewarner it would be a great buy for Comcast , cablevision or microsoft.:D
	permalink · 2005-06-19 16:18:15 ·

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a faster way to get spyware & malware hooooray!

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