{"id":954249,"date":"2025-08-12T10:28:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T04:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=954249"},"modified":"2025-08-12T11:06:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T05:36:00","slug":"aol-is-finally-shutting-down-its-dial-up-internet-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/12\/aol-is-finally-shutting-down-its-dial-up-internet-service\/","title":{"rendered":"AOL is finally shutting down its dial-up internet service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK: AOL&#8217;s dial-up internet is finally taking its last bow.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, while perhaps a dinosaur by today&#8217;s digital standards, dial-up is still around. But AOL says it&#8217;s officially pulling the plug for its service on Sept. 30.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;AOL routinely evaluates its products and services and has decided to discontinue Dial-up Internet,&#8221; AOL wrote in a brief update on its support site &#8211; noting that dial-up and associated software &#8220;optimized for older operating systems&#8221; will soon be unavailable on AOL plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK: AOL&#8217;s dial-up internet is finally taking its last bow. Yes, while perhaps a dinosaur by today&#8217;s digital standards, dial-up is still around. But AOL says it&#8217;s officially pulling the plug for its service on Sept. 30. &#8220;AOL routinely evaluates its products and services and has decided to discontinue Dial-up Internet,&#8221; AOL wrote in a brief update on its support site &#8211; noting that dial-up and associated software &#8220;optimized for older operating systems&#8221; will soon be unavailable on AOL plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-954249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}