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Interesting, AT&T Boosts Dial-Up Fees. . .

Dec 1, 2007 10:48PM PST

AT&T will jack up its rates for dial-up Internet access by as much as 60 percent today, going well above the price of faster DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) in many cases. Some rates for dial-up Internet access will be higher than broadband fees, to push customers to switch.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,140184-c,isps/article.html

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Makes sense.
Dec 2, 2007 12:51AM PST

With dial up use plummeting the costs to maintain dial up centers are rising.

To reverse this trend, tell everyone you can to stick to or switch to dialup.

Bob

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???
Jun 9, 2009 11:00AM PDT

Bob,

Do you realize that some folks can only get dial-up because at&t and other ISP's have not made DSL available in their area? Why should those folks pay more?

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Just wondering . . .
Jun 9, 2009 11:06AM PDT

Did you notice the date of my post?

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Why they will pay more.
Jun 10, 2009 12:09AM PDT

As demand declines the costs go up and the demand declines and the costs go up again.

This is why they'll eventually pay more.
Bob

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Jun 18, 2009 5:21AM PDT

Some discount ISP's are as good or better than expensive dialup's. Mine costs only $99 per year. And if using IE is slow there are some very fast and safe free browsers available.

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Oh yeah
Jun 18, 2009 5:28AM PDT

My cheap dialup, and probably other's as well, comes with a lot of the usual aminities such localized, national and international news, weather, RS read, forums, several email accouts (mine provides 100), great live, phone and email support as well as some other things.