AOL Acquisition Could Boost Verizon's Free Netflix Competitor

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Verizon announced today that it plans to acquire AOL for $4.4 billion. The acquisition could help the company diversify its business portfolio as well as create a strong free ad-based competition to Netflix.

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[thundervore]

This is getting ridiculous, these companies complain about not getting enough profit so they screw over their customers with nickel and dime tactics.

Comcast was going to buy Time Warner.
Time Warner is partnered with AOL
If Verizon buys AOL, they gain all those online subscribers in the 40+ age range then things get strange.

Im waiting for the day the government steps in again and breaks up these companies like they did to the phone companies back when there was basically only MCI

 

[lpedraja2002]

It's pretty amazing how AOL still has any relevance whatsoever in todays age.

 

[razor512]

They just wanted that 100% profit margin on those 2+ million dialup subscribers who are not even using the service

That is a 6 year ROI on just the dialup users alone. Their ad network will turn even more money in, as those people paying for AOL dialup while running the crappy AOL software will be looking at all of those bandwidth hungry obnoxious ads that they will load using their cable or fios service.

 

[balister]

This is getting ridiculous, these companies complain about not getting enough profit so they screw over their customers with nickel and dime tactics.

Sadly, this is general business all over, it's especially bad in the airlines. What it's going to boil down to is customer telling the businesses that they're not going to buy and basically boycott the businesses to get this attitude to change.

Comcast was going to buy Time Warner.
Time Warner is partnered with AOL
If Verizon buys AOL, they gain all those online subscribers in the 40+ age range then things get strange.

AOL and Time Warner merged years ago, then when things started going bad, Time Warner spun off their cable division and AOL. This is why Time Warner Cable was partnered with AOL. When ComCrap decided to try to buy TWC, then everyone and their brother jumped in and said wait a second (rightfully so) and the deal got killed. It's unlikely that Verizon and AOL will get nixed like the ComCrap/TWC deal because there's no chance for monopoly with this deal (Verizon and AOL don't really go after the same customers and Verizon has been wanting to get into the content side of the house for a while now to leverage FiOS even more along with content on the Wireless side as well). So, most likely, what will happen is either TWC will not partner with AOL/Verizon in the future or it will be limited.

Im waiting for the day the government steps in again and breaks up these companies like they did to the phone companies back when there was basically only MCI

You mean AT&T. And the baby Bells have already started to reform back into the monopoly they were. They're not completely back into one entity, but they're are about 3 to 4 now that are monopolies over specific areas of the US (like QWest in Pacific and Intermountain region, basically New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana and westward of those states, the one that is in the Southern US, the one that covers the Plains and Midwest of the US and the last that covers New England and the Eastern seaboard down to Virginia).

And funny that you would say MCI, because MCI was bought by Verizon when it filed for Bankruptcy as World Com.

 

[Addonic]

What they are doing is turning the internet into a subscription based platform.... like, cable TV channels you will pick and pay for. It will be more then just a "per GB" price fight you will only be able see websites you have a subscription Facebooks new internet.org will give you free basic so you can add "subscription"

 

[Addonic]

What they are doing is turning the internet into a subscription based platform.... like, cable TV channels you will pick and pay for. It will be more then just a "per GB" price fight you will only be able see websites you have a subscription Facebooks new internet.org will give you free basic so you can add "subscription"

 

[Addonic]

It's pretty amazing how AOL still has any relevance whatsoever in todays age.

AOL’s media outlets including the Huffington Post, TechCrunch, Engadget, and women-focused video news site MAKERS .

it will be pay per site like HBO and Showtime and so on you will pay more to see that stuff although some will still be free some will not

 

[urbanman2004]

Something seems fishy a/b this deal. Seems Verizon's coming up with a diabolical plan to take over the world lol