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Camden, TN | Keep your broadband, say dial-up users quote:
Only 14 percent of dial-up users say they're stuck with the older, slower connection technology because they can't get broadband in their neighborhoods, Pew reported Wednesday.
Nice slant. How many don't have internet at all because they can't get broadband and putting up with dial-up isn't worth the hassel at ANY price. My best friend is like that. He'd have internet in a second if he could get broadband. When he moved he found out he could only get dial-up tried it for 2 months, got rid of it.
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Thirty-five percent say they're still on dial-up because broadband prices are too high,
WTF? You can get 768 Kpps from at&t for $20. Hell I'm on a special paying $25 for 6 months from Charter for 10Mbps.
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while another 19 percent say nothing would persuade them to upgrade."
19% are idiots. I bet when sites take an hour to load they'll upgrade. This isn't 1998. Hell the Dark Knight website took 8 seconds to load for me and I'm on 10 Mbps. So on dial-up that's 25-30 MINUTES. Yeah ok sounds like fun. |
