- Are people still using dialup?
- Why do people use dial-up?
- How secure is dial-up?
- When did people stop using dial-up?
Are people still using dialup?
Even though high-speed internet has been a popular choice for many years, dial-up service is still available in quite a few areas.
Why do people use dial-up?
Because telephone access is widely available, dial-up is often the only choice available for rural or remote areas, where broadband installations are not prevalent due to low population density and high infrastructure cost.
How secure is dial-up?
In general, the dialup PSTN is the least secure as it is exposes a modem to the equivalent of world- level Internet access. For an unsecured modem, the phone number of the modem correlates to an Internet-reachable IP (Internet Protocol) address. This is a phone number that can be reached from anywhere in the world.
When did people stop using dial-up?
Broadband. At some point in 2004, for the first time ever, there were more people in the US who had access to broadband internet than dial-up, according to the Pew Research Center.