****!!!

[AtW]

BT will turn off its dial-up internet access service on 1 September.

The telecoms firm said it was taking the step because only a "tiny number" of its customers still went online using a dial-up modem

BBC News - BT hangs up on dial-up internet access

 

[SueEllen]

All those in real remote areas are screwed.

 

[Moscow Mule]

Business opportunity for some of this.

 

[amcdonald]

All those in real remote areas are screwed.

There is always satellite links, which is fine unless you want to play COD

 

[d000hg]

There is always satellite links, which is fine unless you want to play COD

COD over dialup probably isn't much cop anyway.

 

[Ticktock]

There's also the small point that (at the moment) it's only BT ending the dial-up service.
These people can still get dial-up if they want it, just from a different ISP (e.g. BT owned Plusnet).

Something will need to be done to provide alternate links for these people as and when all dialup ends. I'd thought that one of the proposals was the use of 4G to provide home internet in remote areas.

 

[OwlHoot]

****!!!

BT will turn off its dial-up internet access service on 1 September.

The telecoms firm said it was taking the step because only a "tiny number" of its customers still went online using a dial-up modem

BBC News - BT hangs up on dial-up internet access

Why are you so cross? Surely you must have broadband in Brum.

Using dial-up by choice these days is simply eccentric, like pining for the good old days of the morse code telegraph

 

[minestrone]

I just wish they would stop sending me broadband marketing mails, I get one about every 10 days. I swear it is more since I phoned and asked them to stop.