In 2012, 2.5 million Americans used AOL’s dial-up service, with 2.2% of the population still using it. 70% of American adults used high-speed broadband, with cost and availability being reasons for dial-up use. Around a third of the world uses the internet, with China having the most users. The cost of broadband decreased by 50% in developing countries from 2008 to 2010, contributing to a decline in dial-up use.
In the United States, approximately 2.5 million people used America Online’s (AOL) dial-up Internet service in 2012. Although the number of dial-up users decreased approximately 15 percent from a year earlier, approximately 2.2 % of the US population was using dial-up Internet service in 2012. By comparison, approximately 70% of American adults used high-speed broadband Internet connections. A 2009 Pew Internet survey found that the top reasons people still used dial-up were that it was cheaper than broadband or because high-speed internet wasn’t available where they lived. Those who had no internet service tended to cite lack of interest as the reason.
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An estimated third of the world’s population uses the Internet, and nearly half of the world’s users were under the age of 25 in 2011.
China has the largest number of Internet users, comprising about a quarter of the world’s Internet users in 2011.
From 2008 to 2010, the cost of high-speed broadband Internet access decreased by 50% in developing countries, which is thought to have contributed to the decline in dial-up users.
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