Vodafone will turn off its dial-up internet service on Monday after telling the services final 1000 customers over past the few months that it is probably time to move onto something better.
Dial-up internet was the norm, if people were online at all, until about 2007.
Most will still remember the distinctive oscillating tones, followed by a sound like static, that dial-up modems made when handshaking to establish a connection.
But with a maximum speed of 56 kilobits-per-second, dial-up is about 18,000 times slower than gigabit UFB connections that are often the preferred choice of home users today.
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Vodafone commercial director David Redmore said it had kept dial-up going for as long as possible to support the shrinking number of customers who use it.
But it was finally time to retire its dial-up service after almost 30 years and help those customers move to better options, he said.
Over the past few months, weve been contacting the final thousand or so customers who were still using dial-up to explain why were about to turn this technology off. Its now crunch time, and Monday will mark the last day of Vodafones dial-up internet service.
Spark turned off its dial-up service in 2018.
