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It’s been eleven years since I first signed up for an internet dialup account. Imagine that. I was so excited to see a small ISP opening shop in a nearby town; until then there was no local phone number for those of us in my small West Virginia town.
That company became even more significant for me because I applied for a job there and was hired. I worked there from 1999 until 2006. By the time I left the company, the original owners were all gone and dialup was dying an agonizing death. Even here, in our nothing spot on the map, high speed internet has become the norm.
Or has it?
It turns out that as many as 40% of internet users are still using dialup. Some do so because of availability and others because of cost. Admittedly, I’ve stuck with DSL simply because it’s less expensive than cable. And since I’m not a gamer, DSL is plenty fast enough for me. The big question, though, is how can anyone justify charging $20 for dialup when DSL is available for roughly the same price?
I guess that’s the same question that the folks at PCDialup.com were asking themselves. Knowing that a large number of people still use dialup at 1996 prices, PCDialup.com decided to offer their dialup connection at a reasonable price. How reasonable? Well, how does $3.95 per month sound?
No kidding, the basic service is just $3.95 per month while the software accelerated service is only a dollar more at $4.95. That is so reasonable that I can’t imagine anyone choosing any other dialup service.
Right now, PCDialup.com is available only in California but will be expanding to cover the entire US. This has got to be the best news on the ISP front this year. Internet access is an important investment in everyone’s future. Many parents, previously unable to afford access, will now be able to give their children the same technology advantages as other children from more affluent homes. Elderly folks on fixed income will also be able to take advantage of the many offerings of the online world.
I applaud PCDialup.com for making this technology affordable for so many. And I anxiously await their nationwide push so that everyone in this country can benefit from this innovative approach to pricing. Thank you, PCDialup.com
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Then there are people like my dad who are basically paying for the set-up. He’s got all his favorites and emails and such saved in AOL. If it weren’t for those, I think he’d have switched to something else a while ago! His house is in the county too, so DSL says they’re not available. and God forbid, he call and have it set up rather than doing it over the internet lol
I remember when AOL first came out and my hs friends and I signed up for it under someone’s mom’s credit card. We didn’t know that they would automatically start charging after our “8″ hours of surfing were done, so it turned out the mom was charged a total of over 600 bucks until she finally noticed. Ahh . . . some things change, but some things don’t!