There are few things less hip than dial-up Internet access. Most folks don't even remember what a dial-up modem sounds (or looks) like. Nevertheless, there are millions of people that use pokey ...

BOSTON — United Online revved up its NetZero Internet access offerings Tuesday, rolling out a high-speed version of its dial-up service, which uses compression and caching technologies to allow for ...

The secret to AOL's 3.5 million dial-up subscribers: they're not paying for dial-up. Completely baffled the fact that not only do 3.5 million people still subscribe to AOL's dial-up service, but the ...

AOL is discontinuing its dial-up service, which helped millions of households connect to the web during the internet's formative years and was instantly recognizable for its beep-laden, scratch-heavy ...

Level 3 Communications has agreed to buy Sprint’s dial-up Internet access business for $34 million in cash, Level 3 said on Friday. The network operator, which provides dial-up access to ISPs across ...

Baltimore — AOL will discontinue its dial-up internet service on Sept. 30, 2025, ending a technology that once connected millions of Americans to the online world. The company announced the change as ...

April 28's column looked at the slow decline of dial-up access at Internet-service providers such as AOL Time Warner's America Online, Microsoft's MSN and EarthLink, drawing the lessons that a) access ...

BOSTON — EarthLink will officially launch a “Plus” version of its Internet access software Wednesday which it says will enable dial-up users to surf the Net at up to five-times the standard rate.

AOL is ending dial-up access next month, 34 years after launching the service that provided many Americans with their first (somewhat limited) taste of the internet. The surprising news here is that ...

Seriously? There were still dial-up plans available? AOL (seriously? AOL still exists?) is ending dial-up. Can you imagine trying to use the modern web at 56kbps? Heck, can you imagine trying to use a ...

The nation's two top dial-up Internet providers are jumping into different lifeboats as the broadband Internet wave threatens to sink their leaky business models. It remains unclear whether either ...