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Om Malik writes about the new Earthlink blog called Earthling. ... If you remember back in August Toby discovered Earthlink's job posting for a 'Blog Master' ...hyku.com/blog/archives/000936.htmlEarthlink blogs at Earthling
Earthlink, the internet service provider has started a corporate blog, mostly talking about issues such as network neutrality and how ...gigaom.com/2006/01/07/earthlink-blogs-at-earthling/For: EarthLink e.V.
EarthLink (NASDAQ: ELNK), is an Internet service provider (ISP) headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. It claims 5.4 million members (2004 estimate)fact: date=April 2009.
Business
In addition to selling the company's various Internet connections online and by phone, EarthLink operates retail kiosks in some Fry's Electronics storesfact: date=April 2009, manned by two to five representatives directly employed by EarthLink, rather than Fry'sfact: date=April 2009. EarthLink provides the large majority of its users with free anti-virus software (Windows 2000, XP & Vista)fact: date=April 2009.
History
EarthLink was founded in 1994 by Sky Dayton at age 23. Dayton reportedly spent an entire week trying to configure his own computer for Internet accessfact: date=April 2009. He realized there was an opportunity to create a simple, user friendly ISP.fact: date=April 2009
From a modest beginning of ten modems, the company has grown to include more than 2,000 POP numbers in the U.S., and more than 40,000 internationallyfact: date=April 2009.
On February 4, 2000, the company, then based in Pasadena, California, merged with Atlanta-founded MindSpring, making it the second-largest ISP in the U.S., after AOLfact: date=April 2009.
On June 10, 2002, EarthLink acquired PeoplePCfact: date=April 2009, a value-priced dial-up service that has more dial-up access numbers than any other ISP (including AOL)fact: date=April 2009. PeoplePC's direct competitors are NetZero and Netscape.
In July 2005, EarthLink announced that it was closing the last of its in-house American call centersfact: date=April 2009, though the company still has American call centers via out-source telecom companies.
EarthLink cut 2,600 jobs in 2003 and 2004. Although EarthLink has reduced its expenses from $283,357,000 in 2003 to $227,285,000 in 2005, their earnings are shrinkingfact: date=April 2009. In 2003, EarthLink reported an income of $1,401,930,000, but by 2005, it was only $1,290,072,000.
In October 2006, EarthLink reported its first quarterly loss in more than 2-1/2 yearsfact: date=April 2009. Revenue from dial-up customers dropped 16.8 percent as the company lost 320,001 of those customers from the previous yearfact: date=April 2009. The company predicted another loss in the fourth quarter of 2006 of $15–$25 million due to investment in Helio.
In response to budgetary concerns, EarthLink began a major restructuring in late Summer 2007 which involved laying off half its employees and withdrawing from several product lines.
EarthLink returned to profitability in the fourth quarter of 2007, posting free cash flow of $59 million and $71 million of EBITDA for the quarter .
Free WiFi initiative
EarthLink worked with Philadelphia, San Francisco, Anaheim and nine other cities to deploy public Wi-Fi networksfact: date=April 2009when: date=April 2009. It teamed up with Google in an effort to bring such a network to San Franciscofact: date=April 2009. EarthLink saw citywide Wi-Fi as a way to compensate for the ongoing loss of dialup customers, and hoped to use its strong brand identity and established customer base to gain an edge in the market.
