News - AOL to sell over 800 patents to Microsoft

[HEXUS]

For over £630 million.

Read more.

[crossy]

AOL currently makes most of its money from dial-up internet access.

Dial-up as in beeep-beep-squawk-squawk 56k-modem - do many people still use that??

[jim]

Dial-up as in beeep-beep-squawk-squawk 56k-modem - do many people still use that??

I know a few people at uni with family holiday homes who use it, because they can pay by the minute rather than by the month. Having said that, I think 3G is killing that off slowly.

And I know a few places where broadband isn't an option due to proximity to an exchange, so unless you want satellite, dial-up is the only logical option.

As you say though, I can't imagine it's a big market. With broadband at £5 p/m on the right deal there's A) not much impetus to save money and get dial-up and B) not much of a profit margin.

[OilSheikh]

They still exist? And, I'll never forgive them for buying Netscape and disposing it!

[dfour]

Yeah I used to use netecapeonline as a ISP but moved assoon as i hea\rd aol where going to have anything to do with it.