Its primary products are banks of modems (called access concentrators) that sit in racks at Internet service providers to provide dial-up connections for customers.
Though Internet service providers' (ISPs) broadband costs are slowly declining, the cost to provide dial-up has dropped faster.
Telefonica Datacorp of Spain said it had signed a multiyear, multimillion-dollar agreement to provide dial-up access and network backbone services to America Online units in several important European and Latin American markets.
Microsoft will continue to provide dial-up Internet access to subscribers, but it is now focused on competing against Yahoo's Web portal business, as well as AOL's new broadband services.
Online, in partnership with MCI, will provide dial-up Internet access.
The money Stanford collected from eager strangers who didn't know anything about him other than his online identity "Demon" was enough to lease a Pipex line and provide dial-up accounts for 10 ($16) a month.
Large ISPs like EarthLink Inc., MindSpring Inc. and America Online Inc. provide dial-up Internet service to a substantial customer base.
There was a question when Bill provided Dial with paper.
Its MSN unit used to do a nicely profitable business providing dial-up Internet access to subscribers.
Level 3 Communications Inc., Broomfield, Colo., the telecommunications company, said it had acquired a business that provides dial-up Internet access from ICG Communications Inc., Englewood, Colo., a data and voice communications provider, for about $35 million.
Without Verizon Wireless, the value of the old Verizon — the giant telephone company that provides dial-tone service as well as Internet and fiber optic TV to millions of customers — is vanishingly small.
