One of the greatest decades of any public company in American history, and then it utterly collapsed right before our eyes because they were unable to move from dial-up to Broadband.
Both Microsoft and AOL are struggling with customers who are moving away from dial-up Internet connections to high-speed broadband connections.
Apache Spark's effect on the data landscape is akin to the leap in Internet applications enabled by the move from dial-up to broadband.
"Once you go from dial-up to broadband, you say 'I would never go back to dial-up,"' she said.
As a result, he says, iPass got an early lead in moving its know-how over from dial-up to broadband networks.
Revenue from dial-up subscriptions dropped 24 percent to $215.4 million.
"U.S. consumers are switching from dial-up to broadband faster than new households are getting dial-up".
"They have gone from dial-up service that didn't work very well to this".
One way is by nudging them to upgrade to broadband from dial-up access.
The House currently has about 800 external data communications circuits ranging from dial-up Internet to dedicated broadband.
