AOL Is Moving Closer To Jettisoning Dial-Up

In April, Time Warner promised to make clear its plans for AOL's future by its second-quarter earnings call, scheduled for tomorrow. Apparently AOL will shed the dial-up Internet access business that once offered tens of millions of people their first glance at the Internet and turned AOL into the nation's leading Internet company in the 1990s. The separation would make it easier to sell the dial-up business outright or sell a piece of it to a partner while retaining access to the monthly cash generated by subscribers.