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Sunday, February 09, 2003
As Broadband Gains, the Internet's Snails Fall Back - SAUL HANSELL, NY Times
America Online now has some company in the Internet doghouse. Last week, the company said the number of subscribers to its flagship Internet service, by far the nation's largest, had fallen in the fourth quarter, the first decline in its history, further contributing to the woes of its parent, AOL Time Warner. But executives at the America Online division can at least find solace that its plight is shared by the other leading dial-up Internet access providers, EarthLink and Microsoft's MSN, which also have shrinking numbers of dial-up subscribers. The problem is speed. Consumers have been dropping their slow dial-up services and switching to faster service, called broadband.
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