AOL Membership Surpasses 27-Million Milestone; AOL Member Usage Exceeds 65 Minutes Daily; AOL 6.0 Drives Service's Continued Growth.Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 16, 2001 AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. Time Warner Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :AOL) today announced that the worldwide membership of its flagship AOL service has surpassed the 27-million milestone. During the climb to 27 million, AOL broke its single-day records for membership growth. On Christmas Day, AOL gained more than 70,000 new subscribers worldwide -- over 30% more than Christmas Day 1999. In the US, AOL added more than 56,000 subscribers, and the international AOL services grew by about 14, 000 members. On December 12, 2000, the Company announced that AOL had surpassed 26 million subscribers worldwide. AOL members are averaging more than 65 minutes on the service daily. In addition, AOL now is handling more than 2 million members who use the service simultaneously during peak periods. Bob Pittman, Co-Chief Operating Officer of AOL Time Warner, said: "We are extremely pleased that AOL is experiencing such record-breaking membership growth, both in the US and internationally. "At the same time, our members continued to increase the time they are spending on AOL. This growth in membership and usage underscores the enhanced convenience, ease-of-use and value of AOL for mass market consumers worldwide." Barry Schuler Barry Martin Schuler (born September 7, 1953 in Jersey City, New Jersey) is American Internet pioneer, perhaps best known for making the Internet easy to use consumers while working for America Online for seven years, and being the CEO for three years. , Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of America Online See AOL. , Inc., said: "Our popular AOL 6.0 service is continuing to drive our strong US and international membership growth. By making the AOL member experience even more valuable, easy-to-use and convenient, we are increasingly embedding 1. (mathematics) embedding - One instance of some mathematical object contained with in another instance, e.g. a group which is a subgroup. 2. (theory) embedding - (domain theory) A complete partial order F in [X -> Y] is an embedding if AOL service in our subscribers' everyday lives." About AOL Time Warner Inc. AOL Time Warner (NYSE:AOL) is the world's first Internet-powered media and communications company Communications Company is a communications unit of the United States Marine Corps. They are part of Combat Logistics Regiment 37 , 3rd Marine Logistics Group (3MLG) and III Marine Expeditionary Force (III MEF). The unit is based out of the Marine Corps Base Camp Smedley D. , whose industry-leading businesses include interactive services, cable systems, publishing, music, cable networks and filmed entertainment. |
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