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AOL to discontinue dial-up internet service after 34 years (www.techspot.com)
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[–] [S] 22 points 1 year ago (22 children)

Funny thing is dialup has been non viable for ~15 years if not more where I live. When you can get 100 mbit fibre for like $5 a month and it costs a whopping $12.5 dollars a month for a 1000 mbit fibre line, it makes no economic sense to offer dialup.

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  • [–] 45 points 1 year ago (20 children)

    Where the fuck do you get fiber for $12/month?? Not in the US I assume.

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  • [–] [S] 22 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Of course not.

    I remember when I first moved to the US and saw the broadband and cell phone prices. Corruption american style.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Don’t visit Canada then. American prices look dirt cheap compared to what we have here.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Did you forget to convert back to USD and the number is just higher?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    No I did everything in USD. It was a few years back so things might’ve changed but while I was still on Reddit I discussed it with some others and at least based on what they were saying, Canadian internet and phone prices were considerably higher than American. It doesn’t help that there’s a duopoly here.

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  • [+] -9 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Yeah, probably not. If your country is the size of a postage stamp, it doesn't take a whole lot of capital investment to run fiber through the entire thing. Whereas if your country is the size of the United States, it takes a fuck ton of capital investment to cover even a decent portion of it by laying lines like that.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    My country is as big as the US and we can get 500 Mbs fibre for $23, less than half what AT&T charges.

    Is not the size of the country that make fibre costs to be so high in US, it's unchecked, exploitative capitalism allowed by a corrupt plutocratic government.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    You mean Canada? Or Australia? Countries where they are as big of a landmass but people dont actually live in remotely close to the entire thing? 95% of people in Canada live in a 100 mile stretch of the southern part of it. Australia is the same way with the coasts versus the interior… its not remotely comparable even if they are the same size on a technical basis

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Brazil. Our population density map is not that different from the US, only it's over one long shore, instead of three (four if you count the great lakes as a shore). Still, even deep into the Amazon region, like the city of Manaus, you can have 600 Mbps fibre for less than US$20.

    Size of the country of population density is not the reason internet access is expensive in the US. Greed and corruption are.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Bullshit excuses. They were given bank ass roll to build that shit out proper and just pocketed it.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I said absolutely nothing about government subsidies, and in another comment, further down the thread, I even said that if a company gets government subsidies to do so, and does not do so, they should be made to pay the money back with interest.

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