On Wednesday, the Associated Press ran a story about how AOL will actually be raising the price for its slower dialup service to meet that of its new broadband pricing that you might have seen on the company's latest ad campaign. The spots, which show "everyday people" going as fast as athletes competing in sporting events, are done that way to represent the level of speed that now these average folks who are AOL dialup users can now get.
Broadband penetration is at a huge high in this country, so much so that Web developers and content creators have pretty much forgotten about people who are dialing in at 56k and below (56k, too, is a marketing thing - you can't go that fast on the phone). If an AOL were able to swing a ton of newbieish broadband users on the 'net, do we expect to see a change in what the consumer content generated will be, or do we think that now all of our parents will get to see Lazy Sunday at the same time that we do?
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