BUSINESS MEMO: NEW PRICING PLAN

OLYMPIA, Wash. -- America Online users nationwide will be given more time and information to consider a new pricing plan in an agreement with Washington state's attorney general.

The agreement last week follows negotiations over AOL's plan to automatically switch subscribers to a new $19.95 flat rate on Dec. 1 unless they advised the company they preferred to stick with the current basic plan -- $9.95 a month for five hours and $2.95 an hour thereafter.

State Attorney General Christine Gregoire contended AOL's plan, announced last month, violated the state's consumer-protection law.