Because starting Jan. 17th, we're running ourselves out of business:

America Online, which earlier this year stopped signing up new broadband customers, is telling existing broadband subscribers in nine Southern states that they must find a new broadband carrier by Jan. 17.

[ Yahoo! News - AOL Tells Customers to Find New Carrier ]

Or am I missing something here, like people craving slow, hard to deal with, Internet connections that they pay too much for?