TO SAVE MONEY IN A TOUGH ECONOMY – Many Internet Users Returning to Dial-Up!
TO SAVE MONEY IN A TOUGH ECONOMY – Many Internet Users Returning to Dial-Up!
COST-CONSCIOUS CONSUMERS LURED BY LOWER ONLINE COST CAN SAVE $300 IN INTERNET COSTS!
Remember dial-up Internet? That often-slow noisy-buzz login? The slow download times? The searching for a local dial-up number compatible with your ISP?
As reported by Etan Horowitz in last Friday’s Chicago Tribune dial-up long left as a dying service many are taking a second look at less-costly Dial-Up Internet Service. Some providers including United Online the company that owns NetZero and Juno ISP’s charge only $9.95 monthly for the service – far lower than the $40-or-greater fee many high-speed Broadband providers charge.
Who is switching back? Although there is no scientific data yet available many just using the Internet to check their email and do less bandwidth-intensive web surfing are downgrading to save monthly fee. Many may be older and have not yet or will not ever catch on to cutting-edge current Internet uses such as audio and video downloads or heavy social networking on such popular websites as Facebook and Twitter.
And will the switch back be long-lived? Many say no as broadband rates become more and more competitive.
But for now – dial-up has yet to completely die and does attract its own – frugal – loyalists!
DEAN MOSS & DEAN’S TEAM CHICAGO
