Dial-up Net Access: In Death Throes?

With phone companies well aware that cable companies are eating their lunch when it comes to high speed Internet access, the price of DSL has gone wayy down in recent months. How low? In some markets, you can get a nice DSL connection for less than the cost of dialup -- some are getting it for $18 a month or even less.

So is it any surprise that telco's are doing their best to wean all of us off slow, lame dial-up Net connections? Not that I agree with this -- pretty underhanded if you ask me.