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