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AOL announces September shutdown for dial-up Internet access
(arstechnica.com)
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Ok, the only country in Europe currently still using dial up is Croatia, the rest of Europe has shutdown those services years ago. Telephone wires have been used for aDSL since the early 2000s and stil used for vDSL but dial up?
Again, Europe is far more densely populated than the US. The EU's population density is 106/km², the US is 37. The least dense country is Finland with 16/km², but they're a rich country with not a large population so it's not surprising for them to not have dial up. Runner up is Sweden with 24 but they are yet again a rich country. For context, there are 10 states in the US that have a smaller population density than Finland. Combine this with the US not having that good of public infrastructure because they mostly have private everything, I don't find it surprising at all that Europe doesn't have dial-up and the US does.