America Online currently is testing reduced subscription rates in several markets, a company spokeswoman confirmed. The test rates--$19.95 a month for dial-up users and $9.95 a month for broadband
users who connect through a non-AOL high-speed hook-up--are available to new subscribers only. AOL has lost several million subscribers in recent years, largely because some consumers who obtain
broadband service from a cable or phone company then cancel their AOL accounts. --W.D.
