Time Warner mulls flogging AOL US dial-up biz
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Aged Operator Leftovers The boss of media omnicorp Time Warner said yesterday he is considering selling off the AOL dial-up business Stateside.â¦
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Time Warner Cable will try selling consumers broadband service based on how much bandwidth they use, a move that could turn the home broadband pricing model in the U.S. on its head.In a trial planned for later this year in Beaumont, Texas, the service provider will offer four tiers of service at different prices. Customers who used more bandwidth would pay more.The details of the tiered pricing plan haven&#39;t yet been set, according to Time Warner spokesman Alex Dudley. The offer will only go out to new customers, he said.Some service providers charge different rates based on the speed of a service, but in the U.S. they typically allow each customer to send and download as many bits as they like in a month. Under that model, some subscribers who exchanged large files through peer-to-peer services reportedly have been cut off. Comcast, the biggest U.S. cable operator, has said it&#160;sometimes slows peer-to-peer traffic&#160;during peak demand periods.In some other countries, Internet users have long endured bandwidth caps. And Web hosting companies typically charge site owners based on how much data they exchange with visitors.Tiered pricing could help settle the ongoing argument over the fairness of certain subscribers and online content providers using up more network capacity than others, according to Ovum analyst Mark Seery. In fact, he thinks the whole industry will go down this path eventually.&quot;It&#39;s difficult to charge, appropriately, different customers if they have such widely divergent uses of bandwidth,&quot; Seery said. And trying to target one type of application, such as illegal peer-to-peer file sharing, raises political issues, he added.&quot;There&#39;s no justification for blocking legitimate uses of peer-to-peer,&quot; Seery said. &quot;The right focus is on who&#39;s using what [bandwidth] and what they should be charged for it.&quot;Many other transport industries, such as shipping, rail and courier services, charge different rates based on how much the customer uses, Seery said. Some have shifted to that system over time. For example, toll bridge operators once charged trucks based on the value of what they wanted to carry over, and U.S. railroads could arbitrarily carry goods from one customer and not from another, according to Seery. Neither model lasted.Time Warner operates in 33 states but is a relative underdog in the U.S. broadband industry, with 7.4 million high-speed data customers. Comcast has 12.9 million.&#160;
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Time Warner has reported revenue growth of 5% for its third quarter, but net income declined. The company may also have to restate its financial results for 2002 in connection with the investigation of accounting
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InfoWorld - Time Warner plans to split up the Internet access and audience businesses of its AOL segment to run them each independently, Time Warner CEO and President Jeff Bewkes revealed Wednesday.
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p2pnet.net News:- Time Warner executives must be wishing theyâd never heard of America Online. âThe Justice Department will file a criminal complaint that accuses AOL and PurchasePro.
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Time Warner Inc. has been trying to figure out what to do with its struggling AOL unit for a few years now. A potential combination of Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. could put even more pressure on the media conglomerate to take action.
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LONDON - Time Warner, the world&#39;s largest media company, is to pay out $510m (Â£260.9m) to US authorities following two federal investigations into its internet unit AOL.
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Time Warner is "looking hard" at selling off the internet access portion of its AOL division over the next 12-18 months, Time Warner CEO Richard Parsons said on Tuesday.
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AOL, the world's largest internet services provider, is to split into four separate divisions to cut red tape and boost profits.
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AOL's roots are in Dulles, but the company wants to bite the Big Apple.
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Time Warner plans to split up the Internet access and audience businesses of its AOL segment to run them each independently, Time Warner CEO and President Jeff Bewkes revealed Wednesday.
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Investors in Time Warner Inc. ,  whose shares touched a two-year low in mid-July, are seeking  signs of a turnaround on August 2, when the world's largest  media company is set to introduce its fourth plan in five years  to save its online unit AOL.
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Time Warner Cable TWX.N plans to  offer its high-speed Internet customers free access to America  Online service, in a deal that could potentially add 3 million  more high-speed subscribers at the cable division, Time Warner  executives said on Monday.
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America Off Line Time Warner is to split up AOL - the ailing internet service provider and ad platform which paid $165bn for the film studio in 2001.â¦
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As an ad medium, America Online has struggled to compete with rivals Yahoo! and Microsoft's MSN. But nine-month AOL Me-dia Networks president Michael J. Kelly declares the Time Warner unit has turned the corner--and some advertisers and agencies agree.
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Time Warner Inc. on Tuesday said a  strategy to offer most of online unit AOL's services for free  was making faster-than-expected progress in attracting new  Internet users and cutting costs.
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Over the weekend, reports surfaced that Yahoo's new financial advisors want it to chase down a merger with AOL to counter Microsoft's multi-billion-dollar bid. But can AOL parent Time Warner afford Yahoo's financial freight?