Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 09:51:56 -0500
From: "Eva Whitley" <eva.whitley at gmail.com>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Modems (was Re: Email issues...)
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

On 12/20/06, Ted White <twhite8 at cox.net> wrote:
> Keith F. Lynch wrote:
>
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Aren't broadband users still in the minority?  I'd think there
> >  were more modems in use now than ever before, most of them for PPP
> >  Internet accounts.
>
> I doubt it, although I have no numbers, one way or the other.  But with
> broadband available to anyone who has cable, and DSL for most others,
> and the current interest in downloading videos (YouTube, MySpace, et
> al), I suspect broadband use has overtaken dialups.  I note that AOL,
> for example, is abandoning its dialup business (which was abandoning AOL
> and dialups anyway).
>

Ted is right. http://news.com.com/Study:+Broadband+leaps+past+dial-up/2100-1034_3-5314922.html?tag=nefd.top

As of July, broadband accounted for 51% of access, and I suspect that
number is higher now.
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