Can AOL-Time Warner Become the Next Major Wireless Provider?
AOL ‘Mobile’, well that certainly has an interesting ring to it. Imagine it alongside the likes of major providers such as T-Mobile, Cingular Wireless. Reflect back to the mid 90’s, post 2400 baud, pre 56k dial up. That was probably around the time when you discovered email, AIM and chat rooms? Actually it wasn’t even branded as AIM, it was still known as AOL Instant Messenger. And back then few of us could afford cell phones. We were still sporting the fancy little colored beepers. In the late 90’s we began to see the emergence of the digital phone, a portable phone with voice mail and caller id and what a phenomenon. Then emerged the contractor’s phone, with the infamous Nextel direct-connect ‘walkie-talkie’ feature. Soon after we began to see a host of phones made for all kinds of lifestyles and niches, clamshell phones, gaming phones, branded services, international services, Internet ready and java enabled handhelds. Most recently with the popularity of wireless phones among youth
