Subj : AOL Dial-up Internet to be discontinued
To   : Mindsurfer
From : Bob Worm
Date : Tue Aug 12 2025 17:46:05

  Re: AOL Dial-up Internet to be discontinued
  By: Mindsurfer to Mortar M. on Mon Aug 11 2025 22:52:26

 >  MM> Man, that's gonna disappoint a dozen people. "You've been
 >  MM> disconnected!"
 > I would like to know how many dial up users they still had at the end, or if
 > they just closed the dial up cause nobody was using it anymore.

I think things like this always have a really long tail. I bet theres a couple of hundred people still using it, probably some areas still don't have cable / DSL / fibre.

In the UK they are trying to close a load of telephone exchanges but it keeps being pushed back, in part because there's not a viable alternative for some things like old-people-falling-down alarms. You can do it over VoIP but then you have issues with battery backup times, etc.

BobW
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