34 years after Americans connect to the Internet through phone lines, AOL Recently It closes the phone application modem service on September 30, 2025. The advertisement represents the end of technology, which was a basic gateway to the global web network for millions of users during the nineties and early first decade of the twentieth century.
AOL confirmed the closure date in an auxiliary message to customers: “AOL routinely evaluates its products and services and decided to stop the internet for phone call. This service will not be available in AOL plans.”
The AOLCA ONLINE service was launched in 1991, when the Internet was mainly composed of the text -based content, although the phone communication roots extend to a service launched in 1985 Quantum For Commodore computers. During the next few years, with the emergence of the global web network, web sites were measured in kilos, the images were small and compressed, and the video was mainly impossible. The service grew alongside the same web, as it reached its peak in more than 20 million subscribers in the early first decade of the twentieth century before it accelerated the adoption of the wide range of its decline.
Along with the phone request service, AOL announced that it would retire the AOL Dialer and AOL Shield show on the same date. Diaaler enables the process of managing the communication process between computers and the AOL network, while the web browser has been improved for slow communication and old operating systems.
According to US census data for 2022, Almost 175,000 American families The internet connection is still through the phone request services. These users usually live in rural areas where there is no bold infrastructure or remains expensive for installation.
For these users, the alternatives are limited. Satellite internet is now serving 2 million – 3 million Participants in the United States are divided between different services, providing speeds that significantly exceed the phone, but often with data covers and higher cumin. The traditional wide range is served through DSL Etisalat, cable or optical fiber the vast majority of American Internet users but requires investment in infrastructure that has no economic meaning always in populated areas.
The continuation of the continuous digital phone in the United States highlights. While urban users enjoy Gigabit fiber contacts, some countryside residents still rely on the same technology that operates the Internet in 1995. Even basic tasks such as downloading a modern webpage-designed with bold speed speeds-can take minutes on contact via phone call, or sometimes do not work at all.