AOL Australia suffers email failure
Summary
Australian AOL users suffered an email holiday last month as a billing glitch locked them out of their AOL.com email accounts.
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Australian AOL users suffered an email holiday last month as a Primus billing glitch locked them out of their AOL.com email accounts.
The problem started in late December, according to a statement put out by the company, after Primus Telecom, which bought AOL|7 in 2004, carried out an upgrade of its billing system. The upgrade "threw a few people off the side", a spokesperson for the company said.
ZDNet.com.au readers first flagged the problem in early December, expressing frustration at what they said was a lack of information coming from AOL on the issue.
The spokesperson maintained that only a small number of users were affected and that the problem should have now been rectified for most customers, with no calls on the issue being fielded this week.
Talkback Most Recent of 4 Talkback(s)
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What the.... people still pay for AOL???
The horror, the horror!!!
Hallowed are the Ori7th Jan 2009 -
Believe it or not...yes.
A friend of mine refused to give up her AOL address and was content to pay $14.95 for a "bring your own access" type of account. She has DSL. The final saving grace came when someone hacked her account and used it for SPAM runs and AOL arbitrarily cancelled her account. Talk about a blessing in disguise.
MGP27th Jan 2009 -
More to the point
People in Australia still pay for AOL?
AndyCee7th Jan 2009 -
RE: AOL Australia suffers email failure
So... is it 'Australia On-Line'?
zhenchyld@...11th Jan 2009
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