I’ve talked to the few people still there and it really is just a skeleton operation technically and eventually that will need to be cut. It really is too bad since there was always so much promise but really not as much execution.

All of this leaves EarthLink without a clear growth strategy. Once dial-up dies off, the company has no wireless or fixed infrastructure of its own to offer competing services. And even though cost-cutting has helped the company return to profitability, it won’t help solve the company’s fundamental problem, which is a lack of future strategy.