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Time's up for dial-up as BT switches it off

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pcernie

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Time's up for dial-up as BT switches it off

http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/ ... nd-1176886

There's still sites that are so borked with flash and what have you that trying to open an image at full-size is like being on dial-up - complete with it appearing Catchphrase-style!

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Fri Aug 30, 2013 3:49 pm

davrosG5

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Re: Time's up for dial-up as BT switches it off

I'm surprised it's taken this long TBH. It's not like the interwebs is terribly usable on a dialup connection these days anyway.

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Fri Aug 30, 2013 4:09 pm

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Re: Time's up for dial-up as BT switches it off

They'll just move people to BT owned Plusnet. Dial up isn't dead yet.

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Re: Time's up for dial-up as BT switches it off


	davrosG5 wrote: I'm surprised it's taken this long TBH. It's not like the interwebs is terribly usable on a dialup connection these days anyway.

It was the risk of big bills that was one of the reasons it was problematic.

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