AOL UK - No Plans To Drop Unmetered
Posted: 27th Feb, 2003 By: MarkJ
UK ISP AOL (America Online) says it has no plans to drop its FRIACO based unmetered dial-up Internet product despite the recent failure of a similar project in Germany:
AOL had been operating a lottery-style system in Germany, where one thousand customers each week won the right to get an "all you can eat" narrowband Internet access product for 19.90 Euros (around £13.60) per month.
As ZDNet Germany reported on Wednesday, AOL has now closed this scheme. But the UK is safe from similar moves, thanks to a wholesale access product that UK ISPs pushed for and won some years ago.
"AOL UK is driving the take-up of narrowband Internet access in the UK with its AOL Flat Rate offering at £15.99 per month. We are still seeing strong growth in narrowband and have no plans to discontinue this service," an AOL spokeswoman told ZDNet UK.
Despite the failure of the project due to Germany's lack of wholesale FRIACO via Deutsche Telekom, the ZDNet item notes that the demand is still there. AOL saw interest from 600,000 consumers.
AOL had been operating a lottery-style system in Germany, where one thousand customers each week won the right to get an "all you can eat" narrowband Internet access product for 19.90 Euros (around £13.60) per month.
As ZDNet Germany reported on Wednesday, AOL has now closed this scheme. But the UK is safe from similar moves, thanks to a wholesale access product that UK ISPs pushed for and won some years ago.
"AOL UK is driving the take-up of narrowband Internet access in the UK with its AOL Flat Rate offering at £15.99 per month. We are still seeing strong growth in narrowband and have no plans to discontinue this service," an AOL spokeswoman told ZDNet UK.
Despite the failure of the project due to Germany's lack of wholesale FRIACO via Deutsche Telekom, the ZDNet item notes that the demand is still there. AOL saw interest from 600,000 consumers.
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