Have you seen any figures on what percentage of rural households have access to fiber? I haven't, bu I would rather wager that the majority of rural America is on AOL than wager that even any significant number of rural Americans use fiber of any sort. Rural fiber is important, but my parents switched from dial-up to HughesNet, not ResTel.

I've actually been trying to get the stats but they are hard to get. I do know that there is a lot of expansion and we are seeing internet speed & price are lower than Comcast. It looks like either feast or famine. I would also note that AOL did not have 100% coverage. You might remember the lawsuit AOL dealt with 800 number charges. Dialup has holes in its coverage.

A more likely problem for rural AOL is the decreasing cost of Point-to-Point and Point-to-Multipoint wifi run on licensed and unlicensed spectrum. Lots of little players out there with Ubiquiti networks (or similar equipment).