At the time AOL went unlimited, CompuServe deliberately chose not to follow with the point being how can you charge a fixed rate for something that has variable costs? There is a cost to someone dialing and just sitting on the system. That was what AOL ran into.  -   Alexander Paris     Quotes
At the time AOL went unlimited, CompuServe deliberately chose not to follow with the point being how can you charge a fixed rate for something that has variable costs? There is a cost to someone dialing and just sitting on the system. That was what AOL ran into. Alexander Paris