AMERICA ONLINE ANNOUNCED that they'd surpassed the 2 million member milestone and declared that "the new figure clearly establishes America Online as the No. 1 online service in the U.S." CompuServe and Prodigy did not (at least publicly) dispute the claim. While CompuServe allegedly has 2.7 million members, 800,000 or so are International customers. America Online has leaped from the distant third largest service in the U.S. to the number one spot in less than one year and has signed up about 500,000 additional customers since December.
MORE PRODIGY NEWS: In the same press release mentioned above, Prodigy announced that in the first 5 weeks, over 300,000 members had tried their WWW browser. If Prodigy has 1.5 million customers, that means that 20% of them have already checked out their WWW browser. That number might not sound like much, but 20% checking out one service in its first 5 weeks is actually pretty huge. WOW. Meanwhile AOL and CompuServe scurry to catch up, but little birds tell me AOL is getting closer...
Above from "In, Around and Online" Newsletter
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