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Forget 4G, AOL still tricks millions of subscribers into keeping their dial-up subscription

07
Aug
2014

While more and more carriers and Internet service providers are looking at ways of increasing data speeds, some people are still stuck on dial-up service, or at least they’re paying for it even though they might not really need it. AOL has no less than 2.34 million dial-up subscribers left, Re/code reports, who pay just over $20 per month for dial-up Internet access, even though many of them may already get their Internet fix from somewhere else. FROM EARLIER: AOL’s dialup business might finally, finally die in 5 years The number of subscribers has dropped significantly from 2011, when AOL had 3.62 million subscribers paying $18 a month for the service, but the company still has a huge chunk of customers,

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