Time Warner confirms weeks of speculation

As had been speculated, Time Warner today announced that it would be making many of AOL's services free of charge for broadband users. "We've listened to our customers, and many of them want to keep using these AOL products when they migrate to broadband - but not pay extra for them," says the company. The reality is that AOL is migrating from ISP to ad-driven portal, and cannot afford to charge for services Yahoo and Google are giving away for free. If you're on AOL's BYOA plan, you should be able to call them today and have all charges lifted.

BYOA = Bring your own access

spotted this @ dslreports

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What this means, in reality, I couldn't tell you ... since AOL has been nothing but joke fodder for me and most savy internet users I have ever met


... group yodel

It's called mass ADVERTISING. I am on AOL (not very internet savy) and have broadband, and they want to 'give' it to me 'free' so what's the catch? Flood you with ADVERTISING. Been thinking about dumping them anyway. Can you imagine the phone call? ME:Hello Mr.AOL I wanna quit. MR.AOL: Quit? It's free! ME: I know, that's why I want to quit. MR. AOL: Are you crazy? ME: Yes...now quit me. Then MR.AOL goes into his scripted 'you can't just quit' and the whole mess ends up in the World Court.