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The US's biggest ISP stopped signing up new broadband customers earlier this year as the $54 a month broadband rate has proved uneconomic and relatively expensive compared with competing services.

Customers in Florida, Kentucky, Georgia, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina are instead being directed to Bell South who is offering a special rate for AOL signups. Perhaps unsurprisingly, AOL's home state of Virginia is not among those affected by the announcement.

AOL expects to drop all other existing broadband customers throughout the US over the next 12 months. Most of AOL's US 23 million users still subscribe to a dialup service for $24 a month.