The company remains quite profitable for its owner even though its revenue and subscriber count continue to tumble.

AOL's strategy with pop-ups changed as its subscriber count in the United States started to shrink at the end of last year.

EarthLink, the third-biggest Internet service provider, kept its subscriber count flat in the final quarter of last year, at 4.8 million.

If it were not for acquisitions, EarthLink's dial-up subscriber count would have declined by 8 percent last year, Goldman, Sachs estimates.

Napster does not disclose its subscriber count.

Microsoft has not released a subscriber count for MSN since January.

The subscriber count reached 2.7 billion by end of 2006 according to Informa, and 3.3 billion by November, 2007, thus reaching an equivalent of over half the planet's population.

But the company also said that America Online's subscriber count in the United States grew by only 477,000 in the second quarter, a 7 percent annual rate.

Cingular lost 121,000 subscribers in the fourth quarter, bringing its subscriber count to 21.9 million, BellSouth said last night when it released its financial results.

(Neither releases their subscriber counts, but they admit they are small.)