AOL has lost over 1 million subscribers since last year
With low-priced ISPs such as United Online growing at a 50% rate each year, AOL (and the other leaders, MSN and Earthlink) is losing subscribers -- in fact it has lost over 1 million customers ince late last year --according to this Washington Post story:
With roughly 26 million customers in the United States, America Online remains the nation's largest provider of Internet access. But over the past two quarters, the company has lost more than 700,000 dial-up subscribers. Squali said First Albany is now projecting that America Online will lose hundreds of thousands of additional dial-up subscribers this quarter and more than 1 million subscribers in 2003.