AOL to Red States: We Don't Want YOu

AOL Tells Customers to Find New Carrier

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DULLES, Va. - America Online, which earlier this year stopped signing up new broadband customers, is telling existing broadband subscribers in nine Southern states that they must find a new broadband carrier by Jan. 17.

Those customers who do not switch to a new broadband carrier by that date will have their accounts revert to AOL's traditional dialup service, said AOL spokeswoman Anne Bentley.

The company has been e-mailing its customers in those nine states that they can switch to high-speed broadband service offered by BellSouth Corp. for a special promotional rate.

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The affected states are Florida, Kentucky, Georgia, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina.

More:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=562&ncid=738&e=1&u=/ap/20041112/ap_on_hi_te/aol_broadband

Rest of story is that they are getting out of broadband business in rest of states later! Come on!

They don't say why they are doing this. This doesn't make any sense but then again, this is AOHell. You get what you pay for.