America off-line: AOL ending dial-up service

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Posted by Dale Patterson
August 11, 2025 6:47 am
#1

"Life without echo is really no life at all." - Dan Ingram
 
Posted by Evuguy
Yesterday 9:38 am
#2

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
 

 
Posted by RadioActive
Yesterday 9:54 am
#3

One last listen, for old time's sake. 

 
Posted by ig
Yesterday 12:50 pm
#4

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.
 
 
Posted by Evuguy
Yesterday 8:17 pm
#5

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.

 
Posted by Glen Warren
Yesterday 8:33 pm
#6

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.....
 

 


 
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