TPG declares dial-up dead

[elbranch]

TPG declares dial-up dead

http://www.theage.com.au/digital-li...tpg-declares-dialup-dead-20150116-12rpk5.html

Australian internet provider TPG has declared "the world of internet has moved on" and suspended sales of its dial-up internet plans.

The telco ceased selling access to its dial-up service this week, signalling the end of an era to internet speeds of up to 56 kilobits per second – 428 times slower than ADSL2+.

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While it was still offering dial-up, TPG had three plans – the Unlimited Pack, Wild Pack and Easy Pack. The Unlimited Pack was $16.99 a month and had no download limit, while the other two plans charged either per hour or per megabyte.

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Many Australian telcos, including Telstra's Bigpond, iiNet Group and Dodo, still offer dial-up. Dodo offers it for the bargain price of $1 per month.

 

[chris]

Interesting @elbranch - definitely the end of an era.

 

[findtim]

a client this week said that his windows XP IE8 computer didn't display his website nicely, i replied, shift to firefox
move on
tim

 

[chris]

I just saw this and thought of this thread:

There were still some 182,000 accessing the internet via dial-up as of June last year, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics. (There are 12.4 million Australian internet subscribers in total)

 

[johno69]

a client this week said that his windows XP IE8 computer didn't display his website nicely, i replied, shift to firefox
move on
tim

Doesn't matter if his target audience use it or anything...