AOL to Raise Dialup Prices

United Bimmer writes "America Online has announced that it's going to raise the price on dialup users in an attempt to encourage them to upgrade to broadband. The new rates will near $26 a month, already drastically higher than the market norm for dialup access. This will bring the dialup prices to almost the exact same per month as broadband depending on your plan. However through this, they do still offer an unadvertised lower price for those who can't get or don't want broadband can request lower-priced plans, including an unadvertised offering of about $18 with a one-year commitment."

Ding!

[darth_MALL]

You've Got Inflation!

Well that's nice of them.

[andy753421]

Less AOL users and more boadband users.. how could it get any better?

Neat!

[TheGhostOfDerrida]

So now I can get dial-up for the same low price as broadband? Wait...

Encourage?

[imboboage0]

The concept of AOL alone was enough to get me to upgrade.

Re:I thought broadband was their enemy?

[frodo from middle ea]

you haven't heard of kismet have you ?

I'm Worried...

[Your Anus]

When I upgrade to broadband, and then cancel my service, will I continue to get billed for it anyway at the braodband rate or at the dial-up rate?

Re:Holy Crap

[Anonymous Coward]

And because it was originally done that way, how dare anyone break the bounds and do something else with it!

Re:Well that's nice of them.

[phorm]

Or the could use AOL broadband... which just makes them doubly scary (10x the bandwidth, 1/10 the brains!)

Re:downward spiral

[FidelCatsro]

3: Less AOL users
4: Profit , for the rest of the Internet community at least

Confession time

[Anonymous Coward]

I have a confession to make; I once tried the AOL free trial. The free trial wasn't woth the cost!

Re:This is ludicrous

[Karzz1]

It is a good thing that Amazon doesn't use Slashdot's moderation system. That book would have to get modded redunudant.

Smile people, it's a joke.

Re:1. Shoot self in foot. 2. ???. 3. Profit!!!

[eosp]

The difference being that Lisa, Segway, and Neo-Geo (not SCO, this applies there too) are all halfway decent products.

Re:People can't let go of AOL

[Thurn und Taxis]

You realize, of course, that you're going to have to marry this girl - she's never, ever going to get rid of you no matter how badly you behave.

AOL is free.

[Anonymous Coward]

1. Install AOL and use the free trial.
2. Call up and tell them you want to leave.
3. Get a few more months.
4. Goto 2.

Re:AOL 11.0! Now with Spellcheck QXZ-3000!

[Anonymous Coward]

Perhaps he meant "baudband". ;)

Re:I thought broadband was their enemy?

[Andrew Kismet]

Do I know you?

Re:Confession time

[seanvaandering]

The free trial wasn't woth the cost!

I'm also betting that you used to spell better?

Re:Holy Crap

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah! Those daring bastards!

It's:
      1. Collect underpants
      2. ???
      3. Profit!

Anything else is just an immitation business plan. :p

Broadband for $26? Point me in that direction!

[FunkSoulBrother]

Can someone clue me in on where I can get that? I live in a big metro area (Denver) and I'm paying comcast $45 a month for cable internet, and thats with a deduction for owning my own cable modem and another for bundling with their Cable TV service.

I'm not saying AOL is a good value or anything for dialup, but in my experience thats a pretty lowball estimate for "exact same per month as broadband".

Re:Uhh...

[Anonymous Coward]

Looks like someone else is an "illiterate moran."

Re:Ding!

[bitt3n]

it's worth it for the cachet of an aol.com email account.