“The ISP market has been consolidating for a long time. Unless you have tremendous scale with great branding and advertising and e-commerce revenue, the only revenue these companies get is through monthly access fees. ISPs need partners.”
“PC makers have the advantage in that everything comes preloaded on the machine. People will know whom to call for technical support for everything that comes with the computer.”
“The ISP business by itself is hard to sustain. Only AOL is highly profitable. The days of the traditional ISP with access fees as their only revenue stream are over.”