AOL to discontinue dial-up internet service after 34 years
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You mean Canada? Or Australia? Countries where they are as big of a landmass but people dont actually live in remotely close to the entire thing? 95% of people in Canada live in a 100 mile stretch of the southern part of it. Australia is the same way with the coasts versus the interior… its not remotely comparable even if they are the same size on a technical basis
couldn't be Australia, those prices are an order of magnitude cheaper.
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You mean Canada? Or Australia? Countries where they are as big of a landmass but people dont actually live in remotely close to the entire thing? 95% of people in Canada live in a 100 mile stretch of the southern part of it. Australia is the same way with the coasts versus the interior… its not remotely comparable even if they are the same size on a technical basis
Brazil. Our population density map is not that different from the US, only it's over one long shore, instead of three (four if you count the great lakes as a shore). Still, even deep into the Amazon region, like the city of Manaus, you can have 600 Mbps fibre for less than US$20.
Size of the country of population density is not the reason internet access is expensive in the US. Greed and corruption are.
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To be honest, I'm surprised it lasted this long.
I read like 10 years ago that a small but still double digit percentage of their income still came from dial-up subscribers many of whom didn’t still use the service. It was speculated at the time that many of these people simply didn’t realize they were still paying for it. I’m guessing they all finally died or credit card numbers changed enough that it wasn’t free money for them anymore.
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Every rural house gets a phone line, just like they all get roads and mail
It's not profitable, but that didn't matter because it was a utility
With Broadband, it's a "luxury" so to get it out to a clump of rural users, they all need to pay for it, or wait and hope someone else pays to get it closer.
The government gave them $400 Billion dollars (that were paid from our taxes) to do it and they pocketed the money.
The Book Of Broken Promises: $400 Billion Broadband Scandal And Free The Net
By the end of 2014, America will have been charged about $400 billion by the local phone incumbents, Verizon, AT&T and CenturyLink, for a fiber optic future that never showed up.
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AOL was founded in 1983 and dial-up would have been the only way to access it. These dates are suspect.
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AOL was founded in 1983 and dial-up would have been the only way to access it. These dates are suspect.
Per your own link: they started as game delivery service called Control Video Corp and later became an AppleLink service called Quantum Link. They became AOL in 89 when they separated from Apple and offered internet modem pools starting in 91.
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The government gave them $400 Billion dollars (that were paid from our taxes) to do it and they pocketed the money.
The Book Of Broken Promises: $400 Billion Broadband Scandal And Free The Net
By the end of 2014, America will have been charged about $400 billion by the local phone incumbents, Verizon, AT&T and CenturyLink, for a fiber optic future that never showed up.
HuffPost (www.huffpost.com)
Biden just did it in 2024 again, I think that was "just" 5 billion tho
Pretty sure there was more than just those two
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Meanwhile, MSN Dial-Up still exists for some reason, you could say it's the COBOL of Microsoft.
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Per your own link: they started as game delivery service called Control Video Corp and later became an AppleLink service called Quantum Link. They became AOL in 89 when they separated from Apple and offered internet modem pools starting in 91.
oh dear, I just skimmed for the founding date.
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TIL AOL Dial up is still a thing.
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Of course not.
I remember when I first moved to the US and saw the broadband and cell phone prices. Corruption american style.
Don’t visit Canada then. American prices look dirt cheap compared to what we have here.
