Joe Laszlo Broadband Quotations

What they're left with is figuring out a better message around why broadband is worth it.

It certainly has not been adoption at the rate that some companies in the industry, some of the early entrants among the broadband providers, were expecting.

The AOL/Time Warner merger could really bring broadband from the cutting-edge, early adapter users to mass-market consumers, something AOL excels in,

There was this assumption that as soon as people got a notion for what broadband was, they would want it -- that it would be as automatic in some ways as adoption of the dial-up Internet was in the U.S., where growth was very quick and almost happened by itself as opposed to really needing to be sold.

I'm sure one of the clauses in AOL's deal with broadband partners was a fairly hefty commitment as far as how many customers would make the switch. Two dollars removes any sort of price-related inertia that their dial-up customers might feel.