The 1/4 million I heard yesterday had to be an estimate. In today's
paper they had this. It's still an estimate, and it is 2 years old.
/Still, a handful of consumers have continued to rely on internet
services connected over telephone lines. In the U.S., according to
Census Bureau data, an estimated 163,401 households were using
dial-up alone to get online in 2023, representing just over 0.13% of
all homes with internet subscriptions nationwide./
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On 8/11/2025 9:16 PM, Trey Scarborough wrote:
I don't see how they have lasted this long or how there could be a
250k people that would be able to get an actual land line to be able
to use 56k dialup.
This makes me have so many questions. Like where are all these PRIs
and dailup units to run these. I remember removing many of the old
Lucent max TNTs that AOL used for dialup in our COs in the mid 2000s.
I tried to reconfigure a couple of them to use as VOIP gateways, but
they had a custom firmware on them that it wouldn't go back to regular
defaults. How are they still running all of these local numbers? I'm
in ATT/VZ/CL main COs on a regular basis and think I would notice dial
up equipment running in the colo spaces and cant say that I have
noticed any. I have seen a few portmaster PM3s that do not look like
they are functioning anymore. All the ports have alarms and the
companies they are labeled as being have been bankrupt for years.
For certain the oddity that they are still somewhat functioning today
completely astonishes me.
On 8/11/2025 2:36 PM, Bill Prince wrote:
For those of you who think nostalgically about those warm modem
dial-up tones, AOL is discontinuing its dial-up service. Music to the
ears of all ISPs that there will now be about a quarter million new
internet customers.
https://pcper.com/2025/08/aol-discontinues-dial-up-wait-what/
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