Dial-up is dying...The Journal says it is official
In the first quarter, AOL lost 290,000 dial-up subscribers, MSN lost 300,000 (even though it has been conducting an expensive marketing and advertising campaign which includes CDs with all kinds of fun movie and other content -- just received the second copy of the same -- just as AOL is now doing with its throwaway millions of CDs with the latest version of AOL), and Earthlink lost 74,000 but made up with a strong growth of broadband subscribers according to this Wall Street Journal story (subscription required):
It's official. Dial-up is dying.
The big three providers of "premium" dial-up Internet access -- that is, access that costs somewhere around $20 a month -- all reported significant declines in dial-up customers in the latest quarter, a steady drop that is expected to continue.