[grum1978]

Originally posted by Escapee
grum1978 said

I know that was aimed elsewhere, but for what it's worth....
"I think so"

I just can't see that many customers signing up for it, surely any AOL customer with no ADSL but with ntl available in their area would allready be signed up.

I can see them gaining people who didn't like ntl and did not realise it was via ntl's network. I guess there are people like that out there.

I also guess that ntl people will say "Our marketing people have done all the figures" but my answer would be "remember how good the figures were for free dial-up"
ntl's marketing people based their figures on large numbers of
new off-net customers when they launched that product, instead they gained loads of on-net customers and had to install lots of second lines, that they were offering cheaply.
On top of this they had to carry out massive upgrades to the Telco network at local ring level to keep up with demand. The network techs were rubbing their hands at all the night work involved in the project.

ntl actually lost huge amounts of money on that venture

th'engineer said

We are going to fall out

to be honest i have come to the same concluesion but for different reasons :p I can not see how AOL are even going to turnover that in four years they will need to get around 750,000 ppl on the service to breakeven. and ppl wonder why AOL are losing money

To be fair here escapee are you trying to tell me that AOL have just taken ntl word on this and a massive company like them don't have the sense to use a calculater

must drink more am starting to agree with escapee!! :p