Microsoft MSN lowers Internet dial-up price

Wow, our largest dialup in Canada is http://www.295.ca/ and yup, you guessed it, unlimited dialup for $2.95 and that is CDN dollars Who in there right mind would pay 20.00 a month for dialup?

I dont' really think that dial-up is dead or soon will be in the US. I say this because I am still using dial-up at home, ONLY because I live in south Mississippi about a mile from a highway, but 15 miles in one direction and 30 miles in the other from the nearest highspeed hookup. I have a fracT1 at work (which is right down the road from my house) but we are 70,000 feet from the local C.O. and they had to use about 20 repeaters to get the signal out here, two of which our office is backfeeding power to. On top of all this, it costs us right at $300 a month for 512k plus we had to sign a 3 year agreement to get eight lines of phone service too (BellSouth) which brings the total to a little over $1,000 a month! For me, and millions of other American's, there is no other alternative simply because of proximity (other than sattelite, which isn't really an option). No, I think dial-up is here to stay for quite sometime, at least until the government takes it upon themselves to fund the effort to supply last-mile high speed technology.

Why not cable broadband? You can get it for $30-$40.

sure there are some that can't afford to pay that much, but I also find that lower income families also tend to be the ones to splurge on large LCD TVs, trip out their car stereo with hundreds of dollats, etc. Will there is a will, there is a way.

Just about anybody can tighten their belts a little tighter to afford broadband. It's only a question of whether you can get it.

80% of the U.S. has either DSL or cable or both available.

Teenagers won't put up with dial-up. They'll beg and plead with their parents or even pay for it with their own money. They want a good online experience and the ability to download music, movies, etc. They don't want to be ridiculed by their friends for having lowly dial-up.

The only people I see staying on dial-up are the >45 year old people. In fact, my dad is on dial-up. But he only does stock trading and email, so he doesn't need high-speed.

but I agree with Tom, dial-up is on it's way out.

dudes is the USA so lame with dial up :s
in belgium whe have cable and dial up
both are broad band
going up to 20MB speed and still going up

whe even have HD tv with broadband cable and dial up
both excellent quality and still improving
and if u don't beleave me

http://www.telenet.be (btw an american company is a stakeholder)
http://www.skynet.be (from belgacom, ex-gov. company)

guess u won't understand a word on the sites buth yeah

+50% american population doesn't know his own states and the other countries in the world :p
and yes it's has been prooved
feel so srry for u guys

Vincent,
The U.S. has DSL and cable broadband. I don't know the exact penetration numbers for broadband, but I believe it is over 60%.

>>+50% american population doesn't know his own states and the other countries in the world :p
and yes it's has been prooved
feel so srry for u guys

Ah yes, knock the Americans. It's fun to kick around Americans. But before you make fun of American kids geography skills you might want to run a grammar and spell check on your comment postings. I count at least 6 typos, spelling errors, and grammar issues.

>>feel so srry for u guys
Don't be sorry. America is still the leading technological innovator in the world. We have Silicon Valley and the top computer hardware and software inventor corporations, so don't be sorry. We're doing just fine.

I liove in an area that does not offer either broadband or cable internet. I have to use dial up, so I hope it never becomes obsolete,at least until I can move where high speed is once again available to me.

Until the billionaire phone companies and cable providers get their heads out of their A$$, us in the rural communities have no choice but to use dial up. The cost of a satellite is unreal for such things. Yes, the International population can knock us down with their tech as our own greedy corps only want to rake in the money the easy way. Perhaps if our International neighbors kept laughing loud enough, maybe our corporations would get out of their fancy lifestyles and hook up those dangling Fiber Optic cables that our Governer Bredson had gotten our local phone company to hang and put them to ACTUAL good use instead of being a waste of money to our state and our tax payers....