Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 20:37:31 -0500 From: Ted White <twhite8 at cox.net> To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net> Subject: [WSFA] Re: Modems (was Re: Email issues...) Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net> Eva Whitley wrote: > On 12/20/06, Ted White <twhite8 at cox.net> wrote: > > > Keith F. Lynch wrote: > > > <snipped> > > >> 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. Thanks, Eva. --Ted White