In a message dated 7/7/2006 5:25:54 AM Eastern Standard Time, FloridaFox@aol.com writes: Last nights news said that AOL will offer free services for those customers using broadband. They will depend on ads for their profit. The dial-up users will pay about $26 per month. They expect 25 million dial-up users to switch. So now we know why they don't care what users want. I should add that I have not searched the web to verify this. I think that may have been a slight misunderstanding. AOL has an agreement that we've talked about previously on this list where they are offering a combined DSL service plus AOL for the same price (combined) as the price of dialup alone. That may be what the news story was saying. It is actually a lot cheaper for AOL to offer their service if they don't have to provide the access so it makes sense for theme to move in this direction. Joan