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That’s partly because broadband providers have yet to extend fiberoptic cables to sparsely populated regions, such as rural counties in southeast Missouri. “It’s just not a concentrated enough population to justify the investment from the companies,” said Felicity Ray, director of the Ozark Foothills Regional Planning Commission. Residents have been advocating for federal or state funding to extend the broadband cables a little farther into the countryside, Ray said.
“We’ve been trying, trying, trying to get higher-speed Internet,” Judy Allen, 75, who lives five miles outside the Missouri town of Bunker (pop. 402), told TIME. Her house falls just a mile beyond the local broadband network’s outer limit, so she’s been forced to stick with dial-up service instead.
Can you believe that 2.1 million people in the United States still use AOL dial-up to connect to the Internet?
For a lot of people it may be their only option. I had an emergency a few years back and used dial for about a week because it was easiest thing to set up immediately. Certainly wasn't watching YouTube but it was good enough for email and the other things I needed to do.
Yes many dont want to pay a cable company for other services besides internet.. (Ya know how they sometimes try to pressure ya into taking more than just internet)
Can you believe that 2.1 million people in the United States still use AOL dial-up to connect to the Internet?
I didn't know AOL was a service provider. I haven't used it since the late 90s. I thought they were mostly out of business and just a .com site with email.
Yea it sad that companies flat out refuse to invest more into the rural areas, but bych when somebody does come in and supply high speed internet for them. Some had to use sat internet and that is the biggest rip-off since peter popoff holy water.
I used to know this old guy who had Verizon DSL but was ALSO still paying for AOL basically because he liked using AOL email and he liked AOL's home page. I explained to him that he can keep his email address and set AOL as his home page with any browser, all for free. He thought it was too much hassle. LOL
AOL is still around. I drive by their headquarters, or former headquarters, all the time.
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