Saving money in a recession is job number one for many families (though not this one), but can you really save hundreds of dollars of year by downgrading from broadband to dialup?
That’s the premise of a ridiculous article that appeared today in the Chicago Tribune (the editors apparently liked it so much when they ran it last month that they decided to do it again). The writer found a single Florida senior who had switched back to dialup as a way to save money. Even though the one analyst the author spoke with said that this wasn’t a trend, and even though the dial-up companies themselves said that dial-up was “not a robust, growing segment of the Internet-service business,” the premise was apparently too good to pass up.
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