Aol finishes its dial-up service, an initial internet residue is still used in some remote areas

The AOL is shutting down its dial-up service, which helped millions of homes to join the web during the early years of the Internet and was immediately recognizable for its beep-laden, scratch-three ring tone in the 1990s and early 2000s.

The company, once dominated as the world’s largest internet provider, confirmed the CBC News’ move on Sunday, saying it would shut down the dial-up on September 30 as a membership option.

Dial-up services were one of the mainstays of the early Internet-like the 1998 romantic comedy was famous in the 1998 romantic comedy. you’ve got Mail – And using a phone line to connect equipment to the web. People of a certain age would remember that it means to choose between your landline and your internet access.

The company, which offered service to customers in Canada and the US, did not provide details about its existing dial-up customers. With more speeder broadband internet access, the end of the standard, dial-up service for web connections in North America now raises the question of who is still using it.

In an interview with CBC News, technology analyst Carmi Levi said, “There are many parts of rural Canada, which still have no access to reliable access or high-speed internet connectivity. And for them, dial-up is their only option.”

Levi said, “There are many regional or local players across the country that still provide low-cost dial-up access. The problem here is that the Aadhaar, the Internet as we know, is no longer created for dial-up access. And so it is a technique that has actually passed,” said the Levi.

According to a CRTC report Published Earlier this year, 95 percent of Canadian people have access to high-speed internet. But broadband coverage in the three regions of the country, as well as in the reserves of rural areas and first nation, is still catching with the rest of Canada.

CBC News CRTC reached to ask how many Canadians are still using dial-up services, which falls under the “fixed internet” umbrella that tracks the regulator. Statistics from US Census Bureau estimated Around 163,000 houses were using dial-ups specifically for internet service in 2023.

Levi said, “It is not going to affect many people, but if you are one of those who never infected, it is very earthquake,” said Levi. “This means that in late September, you are losing the only access to the internet you have ever known.”

Canadian major telecoms are increasing fiber-optic networks for internet connectivity as they are able to move data at high speed and to be cost effective. Satellite services-SpaceX’s Starlinks-including sometimes are also used for high-speed internet in rural and remote areas.

Victoria, a technology analyst at BC, Dana Ditomaso said that satellite coverage is not always reliable or phalosom in low -populated areas. “Especially if it is a hill or there are a lot of trees, the satellite internet is also not all well -working because you need a clear line for the satellite,” she said.

This is the place where there may be a difference between dial-up services-but the detomaso does not expect any indifferent-fuel revival of technology.

“It’s not like vinyl records, and people like, ‘I really want that dial-up experience,’ You know? ‘ He said.

“These are people who have to dial-up, not because they want to dial-up.”