AOL to no longer charge high-speed Internet users for e-mail and other Web services

Time Warner’s Internet division AOL has done what the market had been expecting since sometime now. The company has announced that they no longer plan to charge high-speed Internet users for e-mail and other Web services.

The aim of the company is to gain more users, which would end up earning them revenues from online advertisement.

This would be AOL’s fourth overhaul in five years as it competes with other internet giants including Google, Yahoo! and MSN.

AOL has been losing its subscriber base to competing internet service providers and they had recently indicated that they might change their policies of charging their users for services, which are provided by their competitors for free.

As a result of this deal, High-speed subscribers who have paid about $15 per month to use AOL’s Web services will now get them for free. This is expected to be applicable as early as this coming September.

The company would however continue to sell dial-up Internet access and its Web features for about $26 per month.