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From: 0003209613@mcimail.com (Sandy Kyrish)
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Subject: Info Needed on Prodigy Service
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I'm interested in knowing just how successful Prodigy *really* is.
Anyone with informal (or formal) knowledge of these questions, I'd
appreciate hearing from you ... either through this forum, or at my
personal MCI Mailbox, MCI ID 320-9613.

1. Prodigy claims nearly 500,000 subscribers.  What's the turnover
rate?  Do people "buy the yellow box", keep Prodigy for awhile, and
then cut it off?  And what is this 500K number really based on; boxes
sold/given away, or active bill-paying subscribers?

2. Is anything besides the e-mail/BBS service really popular with
subscribers?  Is the shopping at home/banking at home making a dent?

3.  What do you think people are really responding to with Prodigy --
the ability to access information, the ability to finally put their PC
to good use, the e-mail/BBSs, or something else?

4.  Do you/did you use it, and how do you/did you like it?

Thanks in advance,

Sandy Kyrish


[Moderator's Note: I'm hearing some bad news about Prodigy lately. So
'they' say, several users recently were summarily evicted from the
service after they sent email to other users criticizing the service's
plan to begin charging for 'excessive' amounts of email.  Does anyone
have any details on this?  PAT]