ToyfareMark
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Post by ToyfareMark on Aug 7, 2014 16:23:29 GMT -5
www.ign.com/articles/2014/08/07/millions-of-people-are-still-paying-for-aol-dial-up AOL reported solid second quarter earnings yesterday, revealing that it still makes most of its money from dial-up internet subscribers.
While the number of subscribers is dropping, the monthly price is increasing. According to re/code, 2.34 million people still subscribe to AOL's dial-up internet service, paying $20.86 per month on average. That number is down from the 3.5 million people who subscribed to the service in 2011.
According to Seeking Alpha's reports, CEO Timothy Armstong is optimistic that the number of subscribers can grow again. "I think we are realistic that people are not buying access subscription at the access store that much anymore for dial-up ... As we improve the products there, I would sure hope that we get to the point where subscriptions are growing again, and that's our goal." The rest of AOL's profits come from display advertising.
At one time, AOL's dial-up was a cultural mainstay, but it's hard to believe that 2.34 million people are still listening to the sounds of a dial-up modem connecting to the internet. Perhaps some people just forgot to cancel their service for the past fifteen years.]Wow, thats rather interesting. i still use AOL for chat purposes sometimes, but I definitely don't pay for it. I'm guessing most of these people are either elderly, or live in VERY rural areas.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Aug 7, 2014 16:40:24 GMT -5
Not surprised at all. Not everyone place has the Internet capabilities of some more populous places.
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on Aug 7, 2014 16:41:20 GMT -5
Man, I totally forgot about, 'I'm on the phone, you can't use the internet'.
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Post by Hit Girl on Aug 7, 2014 16:42:19 GMT -5
I blame X Pac
He won't let them leave 1998
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Post by SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman on Aug 7, 2014 16:52:19 GMT -5
Doesn't Australia have almost only dial-up?
Either way yeah, there are still many areas where it's the only option so it's not that big a surprise.
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Post by SHAKEMASTER TV9 is Don Knotts on Aug 7, 2014 17:06:01 GMT -5
Vince is still in that chatroom.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2014 17:18:25 GMT -5
Even the Amish are like, ".... really?"
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Glitch
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Post by Glitch on Aug 7, 2014 17:24:16 GMT -5
I'm guessing they managed to increase subscriptions when they stopped sending all those discs that littered everywhere, and annoying people who were interested.
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Post by DASH 243✅ on Aug 7, 2014 17:31:16 GMT -5
my in-laws still have dial up but they live 15 miles past bum f*** Egypt so its all they can get
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Post by Hit Girl on Aug 7, 2014 17:53:24 GMT -5
I miss the noise dial-up used to make
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeekrrrrrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhbeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep......beeeep.....click
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Post by monstermike87 on Aug 7, 2014 18:07:07 GMT -5
I miss the noise dial-up used to make Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeekrrrrrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhbeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep......beeeep.....click If you really miss it, just find a fax number and dial it. They still make those beautiful cyber cat death sounds.
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Crappler El 0 M
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Post by Crappler El 0 M on Aug 7, 2014 18:11:30 GMT -5
Some people simply live in rural areas where the big phone/internet companies just don't want to serve. It was the same deal that happened with mail delivery in the 1800s before Rural Free Delivery.
It's kind of a shame for these people because most computers these days don't even come with a modem built in, so they would have to be an external modem just to have inferior dial-up internet.
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Aug 7, 2014 18:16:01 GMT -5
If ya live out in the woods your options are limited.
That said, having had cable now for years; dial-up would be brutal.
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Aug 7, 2014 18:19:07 GMT -5
Also:
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Post by Hit Girl on Aug 7, 2014 18:19:39 GMT -5
With dial-up, it took nearly an hour to download the Phantom Menace trailer
As it turns out, it was better than the film
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Malcolm
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Post by Malcolm on Aug 7, 2014 18:22:28 GMT -5
I'm guessing they managed to increase subscriptions when they stopped sending all those discs that littered everywhere, and annoying people who were interested. I miss those discs for some reason...
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Post by ayumidah on Aug 8, 2014 3:51:51 GMT -5
I'm always surprised when I learn that AOL dialup is still a thing, I guess, heh. My main experience with them was when I signed up for a free-trial, forgot to cancel it, and the next thing I knew my bank account was overdrafted because I didn't know I had to cancel it and they charged me five times, which a quick google told me was a common AOL error. Luckily I got the charges reversed and canceled AOL dialup account then.
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Post by Eunös ✈ on Aug 8, 2014 4:44:33 GMT -5
I remember back when I was only allowed to use the Internet for Half an Hour a day.
Nowadays I might go mad if that was the maximum time I was allowed >.<
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Post by Father Dougal McGuire on Aug 8, 2014 6:17:13 GMT -5
Once cd-roms became prevalent, I did like how almost every magazine came with a 3.5 floppy. Yay free recordable media.
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Post by Dragonfly on Aug 8, 2014 12:51:42 GMT -5
My in-laws had a hell of a time getting broadband due to where they live. The rest of my wife's family had it worse: For a long while, Comcast refused to deal with their cluster of houses due to their "aging infrastructure," aka telegraph lines.
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