AOL's strategy with pop-ups changed as its subscriber count in the United States started to shrink at the end of last year.
As its subscriber base grew it exceeds 500,000, or more than 40% of the market Now was able to poach valuable content, such as sports rights and film channels, from rival pay-TV operators.
XM Satellite Radio Holdings said yesterday that its net loss widened in the fourth quarter, but that revenue increased as its subscriber base grew by more than 700,000, to exceed 3.2 million.
As its subscriber growth has slowed and, more important, as the online advertising market has collapsed, the America Online division, which was meant to be the company's growth engine, has stalled.
PCS added 972,000 customers as its subscriber turnover rate held steady at 2.9%.
In telecom, China Mobile reported the pace of its earnings growth eased, rising 2.3% last year compared with double-digit growth in years earlier, even as its subscriber base grew 14.2% to 522 million.
It has experimented with new features, such as allowing its subscribers to buy films through their set-top boxes, as opposed to just renting them, which it hopes will keep them loyal.
That news might disappoint the conspiracy theorists, but not nearly as much as it does Stratfor and its subscribers, whose personal and financial information was compromised as a result of the attack.
Charter Communications, the cable company controlled by Paul G. Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, is struggling to hang on to its subscribers as it awaits the results of investigations into how it accounts for them.
