Marcia - 8:30 pm on Feb 13, 2003 (gmt 0)

Any time now there'll be a joining of forces between MSN and Verizon DSL:

[microsoft.com...]

Verizon has been conducting an aggressive outsourced telemarketing campaign for several months to their existing dialup customers to get them to upgrade to the DSL service.

MSN/Verizon will be directly competing at the ISP level with Yahoo/SBC. Verizon gets regular phone service customers, as does SBC, who bill combined with local phone service bills in a lot of cases, so there's a large share of captive audience there.

It's hard to believe that at least one of them won't be making a major change.

[edited by: Marcia at 8:33 pm (utc) on Feb. 13, 2003]