In an obvious sign that not enough people were willing to pay for it, comes this news:
NEW YORK (AP) - AOL's Spanish-language portal is now available for free as the company completes its plans to give away most of its services to boost traffic to its ad-supported Web sites.
Formally launching Monday at , AOL Latino was previously restricted to customers who paid as much as $26 a month. Over the past few months, AOL started giving away AOL.com e-mail accounts, software and Web portals targeting kids and teens.http://aollatino.com
"This launch represents another phase in the evolution of the U.S. AOL.com Web portal," said David Liu, AOL's senior vice president.
Following years of decline in AOL's core Internet access business, the company began two years ago to break down its walled gardens of exclusive content. In August, it accelerated the giveaway and stopped actively marketing access services to new subscribers.
Over the years I have used many different internet service providers, the only one I would never ever ever recommend is AOL. Not only from a billing standpoint, a customer service standpoint and what they charge for what they provide. As an example right now I am paying $14.95 a month for dsl thru Earthlink as opposed to over $20.00 a month for dial up thru AOL? When I did use a dial up I was very happy with netzero, it was unddr $10.00 a month and had less of the software issues that AOL wants you to download on to your computer.
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