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Many Internet Users Happy With Dial-Up

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the keeping-it-screeeech dept.

prostoalex writes "With cable and DSL operators constantly pushing the values of broadband, and with the President of the United States himself announcing broadband access a priority, the New York Times reports (free reg. req.) that some people actually are perfectly satisfied with their 56K connection. In February 2003 Pew Internet conducted a survey, where they found out 60% of dial-up users weren't interested in switching, a year later in 2004 the percentage was roughly the same."

2 of 571 comments (clear)

  1. the need for speed by craqboy · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I guess these people never feel the need to download a full cd via bittorrent in under five minutes. For all the BellSouth users that have DSL. BellSouth has just rolled out DSL Xtreme which is 3mbit downstream. I just upgraded for 5 bucks more a month. Well worth it for downloading the pr0n at twice the speed.

  2. Re:Duh! by negacao · · Score: 0, Redundant

    What we need to do is find these people.

    And then email them really, really big files.

    Take that, mr. dialup!