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August 11, 2025 6:47 am  #1


America off-line: AOL ending dial-up service


"Life without echo is really no life at all." - Dan Ingram
 

Yesterday 9:38 am  #2


Re: America off-line: AOL ending dial-up service

Apparently, dial-up now only makes up for about 0.1% of users in Canada. Would have to assume that would be all the doctor's offices that still use it to complement their fax machines ;-)

Some interesting stats on the Canadian telecom market and how speeds and revenues have grown in recent years: https://crtc.gc.ca/pubs/cmr_ctmr_2025-en.pdf
 

 

Yesterday 9:54 am  #3


Re: America off-line: AOL ending dial-up service

One last listen, for old time's sake. 

 

Yesterday 12:50 pm  #4


Re: America off-line: AOL ending dial-up service

Well that's certainly going to tone down some of the 'today sucks, kids know nothing, old days were better' threads. 


Madness takes its toll.  Please have exact change.
 
 

Yesterday 8:17 pm  #5


Re: America off-line: AOL ending dial-up service

Oh, and don't forget, that if grandma happened to pick up the extension phone, that 56k connection would drop out quicker than you can say dial up. I'm sure Bell made some good coin in upselling folks to a second phone line.

 

Yesterday 8:33 pm  #6


Re: America off-line: AOL ending dial-up service

Evuguy wrote:

Oh, and don't forget, that if grandma happened to pick up the extension phone, that 56k connection would drop out quicker than you can say dial up. I'm sure Bell made some good coin in upselling folks to a second phone line.

Bell trying to further capitalize on the limitation of current technology?   Never.....