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kudos:1 | Re: Who owns AOL? AOL LLC is a subsidiary of Time Warner.
Maybe those that stay with a POTS and Dial-up don't need or can't afford HSI, Cable, or Digital Phone ???
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| | | | Re: Who owns AOL? That too, but what do they care | |
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kudos:1 | Re: Who owns AOL? Do they care ??? Why should they ? HSI is NOT a necessity.
For those that have a POTS can get very basic limited use Dial-up for as little as $6/mo, or free if they don't mind ads.
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| | | | | | Re: Who owns AOL? I meant the company. They just want money | |
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kudos:1 | Re: Who owns AOL? Isn't THAT the point of having a Company ? | |
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Roslyn, NY | Geez... I just realized that it took AOL over 4 years to upgrade AOL from 9.0 to 10.
It really shows you how much they care.
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| | dial up must be banned why cant the fcc stop sittin on ther lazy asses and relax the rules.....make even 128k dsl available everywhere in the country | |
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Camden, TN | Re: dial up must be banned said by bandialup :
why cant the fcc stop sittin on ther lazy asses and relax the rules.....make even 128k dsl available everywhere in the country
Maybe someone who is more expert in this can answer but I believe dial-up is stuck at 56k because of line noise. The government caps speeds at 53.3 but I think 56.6 is the max you could get anyways. | |
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Walden, NY | Re: dial up must be banned Apparently there's STILL a lot of folks out there who switched to broadband years ago, but flat out refuse to stop using AOL software! I was visiting a buddy of mine recently who's been on Road Runner for a decade, but is firmly glued to his AOL e-mail addy and doesn't want to give it up.
Funny thing, he was still paying $9.99 a month for AOL on top of RR, unaware he could get AOL usage for free (you give up 24/7 phone support and limited dial-up access, which RR provides free anyway). Of course I helped him switch to the "free" AOL plan.
Don't throw dial-up to the curb just yet; there's still a use for it (this buddy has a condo in Florida, where it doesn't make sense to sign up for BB the two or three split months he's down there).
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| Re: dial up must be banned Jeez, I haven't heard anything about AOL in years (haven't used 'em in that long, either!). Although, I liked the early days when they gave out endless supplies of floppies. Those were reformatted & reused. When they switched to CDs, we had to get creative -- we made mobiles & wall sculptures w/ 'em! | |
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1 edit | AOL and Another Email Hoax - Snopes.com to the rescue AOL please die. My aunt loves to forward email and they are usually started by an AOL customer who received an email stating something to good to be true. [url]»www.Snopes.com[url] to the rescue, find the relevant hoax, urban legend, and copy and paste the URL in a reply to her and the hundred other people on the forward list; the most important being the AOL customer who started this mess and explain that "Cancer is not cured by..."
Ah, how I would love the day when my inbox had no forwards with suggestive subject lines. Now for today's perusal; nevertheless, "FW:FW: Think about this." Well one can hope!
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kudos:1 | Re: AOL and Another Email Hoax - Snopes.com to the rescue This kind of thing isn't limited to AOL users and how is AOL to blame?
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Camden, TN | Re: AOL and Another Email Hoax - Snopes.com to the rescue said by 61999674:This kind of thing isn't limited to AOL users and how is AOL to blame? because people still using AOL typically tend to be the most ignorant when it coems to things like online scams. I'm trying to be insulting I'm just stating fact. | |
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Camden, TN | Re: FACT said by likitysplit:Everyone in Tennessee is genetically linked. Good thing I was born and raised in Illinois then lived in Florida for over a deacde before moving to TN at age 24.
if you think insulting the natives here is hurting my feelings you are poorly mistaken. My opinion of them is much worse than any you could ever think of. | |
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Turlock, CA | 69 had it right AOL has always catered to the clueless and ignorant when users decide to log on to the internet. Since they have no clue what the internet is and were kept in the AOL portal they were never exposed to the internet.
How many AOL users would log on to their dial up service and then minimise the client software and launch IE or Firefox and find that key words do not apply when outside of AOL amongst other things.
When in their inboxes within AOL they then would just reply and forward to their hearts content and believe everything that was addressed to them.
My first internet exposure was a dial up account, finger, Pine, and then finally a browser when IE and Netscape came along. I tired AOL for all of 90 days free and then only as an access to the real internet.
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| | Non Profit ISP One of the under-reported stories is just how many folks still rely on dial-up. I run a nonprofit ISP in the rural mountains of North Carolina, and though we offer broadband wireless, 60-70 percent of the folks who want our service can't get it due to the line-of-sight limitations of the current unlicensed spectrum. As a result, they're stuck with dial-up.
However, the FCC has a rulemaking underway which would solve the rural broadband problem. The FCC could open up the vacant TV channels -- the so-called "white spaces" -- that come available next February when the TV broadcasters go digital. In many rural areas, the broadcasters will only be using about 30 percent of their spectrum allocation. This vacant spectrum is much more efficient, allowing our broadband signal to penetrate buildings and heavy foliage, and to bend around and over mountain ridges. Of course, the broadcasters want to warehouse this spectrum and monetize it down the road. So we have a fight on our hands.
»www.freepress.net/news/29184
My organization, the Mountain Area Information Network (MAIN), is leading a national effort to organize rural advocacy orgs to push for unlicensed access to these vacant TV channels. Currently, most of rural America is not aware of this potential solution to the rural broadband problem.
Meanwhile, any dial-up users who want to support this effort can do so by using our nationwide dial-up service called IndyLink.org. That way your Internet dollars can go to support a real solution to the rural broadband problem. As a 501(c)3 org., we also accept tax-deductible contributions to support our Digital Inclusion work.
Wally Bowen
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Mountain Area Information Network (MAIN) Asheville, N.C.
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