From: *@eli.users.panix.com   
      
   In comp.misc, Theo   wrote:   
   > Someone with more US knowledge please correct me, but I think AOL dialup was   
   > a service that ran over the top of your phone service, which you got from   
   > your local phone company.  That meant you could dial in from anywhere with a   
   > phone connection.   
      
   Yes, but probably to a local number for price and quality reasons.   
      
   > To move into broadband they couldn't have had a national service like they   
      
   AOL was (not originally but for several years) part of Time Warner which   
   provides networking over cable TV lines in a large part of the country.   
      
   > By contrast, in the UK the incumbent phone company offered national   
   > wholesale access to DSL and AOL did become a DSL ISP using that for a while.   
      
   Interesting. I've never used AOL dial-up, but I did use AOL very briefly   
   (months) for a job. It was a matter of simply logging in over an   
   existing network connection. Most people who use AOL still probably do   
   that. Not sure if they have anything more than support for your aol.com   
   email address left as part of the service.   
      
   Elijah   
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