Should we worry about dial up users?

1. Are people still using dialup?
2. Why do people use dial-up?
3. How secure is dial-up?
4. 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.