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Broadband Internet Plans UK
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AOL Broadband
Plans:
Broadband Silver
up to 2Mbps £14.99 a month
Special Offer: FREE wireless router worth over
£55 - and one month free
With Broadband Silver you get unlimited
downloads* and unlimited time online
Was 1Mbps, now 2Mbps - now even faster!
Download speeds up to 2Mbps - that's up to 40x
faster than dial-up
One month FREE when you order online
FREE connection and set-up with full online
support
Home networking support so you can connect
multiple PCs
Broadband Platinum
up to 8Mbps £29.99 a month
Special Offer: FREE wireless router worth over
£55 - enjoy broadband without wires
With Broadband Platinum you get unlimited
downloads* and unlimited time online
One month FREE when you order online
Download speeds up to 8Mbps
FREE connection and set-up with full online
support
Home networking support so you can connect
multiple PCs
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Description:
AOL LLC (formerly America
Online, Inc) is an American online service
provider, bulletin board system, and media
company operated by Time Warner. Based in
Dulles, Virginia, with regional branches
around the world, the former "goliath among
Internet service providers" once had more than
30 million subscribers on several continents.
In 2000, AOL and Time Warner announced plans
to merge, a deal approved by the FTC on
January 11, 2001. The total value of AOL stock
subsequently plummeted from about $226 billion
to about $20 billion.
AOL has a poor reputation for customer
service, underlined in 2006 by difficulties
encountered by users calling to cancel their
service. In July 2006, when AOL had fewer than
19 million U.S. subscribers, PC World declared
it the worst tech product of all time.
AOL is a company in transition, made evident
by discussions of buy-outs and joint ventures
during a period of dramatic decline in AOL's
subscriber base. News reports in fall 2005
identified companies such as Yahoo!,
Microsoft, and Google as candidates for
turning AOL into a joint venture; those plans
were apparently abandoned when it was revealed
on December 20, 2005 that Google would
purchase a 5% share of AOL for $1 billion.
Type Owned by Time Warner (95%), Google (5%)
Founded 1983 (as CVC)
Headquarters Dulles in Loudoun County,
Virginia, USA
Key people Jonathan Miller, Ted Leonsis
Industry Internet & Communications
Products Internet service
Revenue (Q2 '06): $2.0 B USD (2%)
Employees about 20,000 |
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