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Response To AOL Controversy - Research Paper

Response To AOL Controversy

The article "America Online, while you can" by Bob Woods is all about
the hoopla concerning the fact that America Online, or AOL, has not been able to
accommodate its vast amount of customers. This is due to AOL's new flat rate,
which substituted their original hourly deal. Many AOL users experience busy
signals when trying to log on. When and if they do get on AOL, the service runs
extremely slow because of the overload of users. Woods threatens that AOL will
lose many of their customers if they don't improve their resources. Other
companies should beef-up their advertising and try to cash in by targeting the
unsatisfied AOL users.
In this day and age of internet use, people in ...

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search device, such as infoseek, yahoo, microsoft network or web-
crawler. These sites are no harder to use and they provide lots of helpful
menus and information.
In Wood's article, he states that he lives in Chicago, and AOL has
several different access numbers to try if one is busy. He writes that often
when he has tried to log on using all of the available numbers, and has still
been unsuccessful. This is a problem for him because he is dependent on AOL to
"do the daily grind of (his) job as a reporter and PM managing editor." If I
was not satisfied with the performance of my internet provider, which happens to
be sprintlink, I would not complain to the company. I would take my money
elsewhere, especially if my job depended on using the internet. With all of the
other options available, wasted time and inevitable frustration using AOL could
be eliminated. I live in Richmond, Va., which is a fairly big city and have not
once been logged off or gotten a busy signal using ...

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Added: 9/15/2005 07:57:01 AM
Category: Computers
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