Carphone Warehouse's ongoing network integration prompted by its purchase of AOL's broadband business in 2006 could spell trouble for tens of thousands of customers, CEO Charles Dunstone warned today. In the firm's Q2 trading update, he said: "We have successfully migrated over 1.3m AOL customers: a further 80,000 customers, whose operating systems or hardware are incompatible with the new platform, are yet to be migrated and a proportion of these are likely to be at risk."Carphone has already lost 12,000 AOL customers as a direct result of the migration. We've asked the firm which specific hardware and software set-ups are under threat and will update this story if we get an answer.
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I would consider it to be the opposite actually, most junk (malware, viruses, etc) has a lower chance of loading on 98 than xp or vista which is what most junk is coded for.
I would consider it to be the opposite actually, most junk (malware, viruses, etc) has a lower chance of loading on 98 than xp or vista which is what most junk is coded for.
Seriously? You included Vista in that? I thought XP was a stretch, but do you have any evidence for that at all?
Basicaly you need to have windows 98 or higher, which is pretty normal id guess, to get broadband. Anyone on dial up will be offered BB packages with free routers, but it is the choice of the 80,000 if they want to take it up.
I dont even deal with all the sales crap so i dont know much more than that...
Oh yeah, ThaCrip, i know the aol software is bloatware and I hate it, so does every aol employee, it is just horrific. After the split from aol inc (aol usa) we don't have to use it, but apparently people want it as at least an option.
Saying that, you dont have to use it at all
now dont all rush out to get aol at once guys
no fear of that....
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