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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to a connection to the Internet or other network that is obtained by dialing a telephone number.
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- adjective computing (of a connection to a network, especially to the Internet) that requires a
telephone number to bedialed - noun computing A
network connection that requires atelephone number to bedialed .
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Examples
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The FCC has proposed to take jurisdiction over broadband Internet access, which connects people to the Internet, just as dial-up service does.
Art Brodsky: A Clear Message Emerges From the Hill's Net Neutrality Mess: 'The FCC Must Act' Art Brodsky 2010
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The FCC has proposed to take jurisdiction over broadband Internet access, which connects people to the Internet, just as dial-up service does.
Art Brodsky: A Clear Message Emerges From The Hill's Net Neutrality Mess: 'The FCC Must Act' Art Brodsky 2010
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I'm still on dial-up, and don't understand how high-speed anything would work from home.
Television Transition joshenglish 2010
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Big telephone companies which receive millions of dollars in support for serving rural areas for dial-up wouldn't get the same millions of dollars in support for serving rural areas for broadband, because the FCC has no authority over broadband.
Art Brodsky: A Clear Message Emerges From the Hill's Net Neutrality Mess: 'The FCC Must Act' Art Brodsky 2010
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The company is betting that its future is in streaming video, and CEO Reed Hastings has said he expects Netflix's DVD subscriptions to steadily decline, much like what has happened to AOL Inc.'s dial-up Internet service.
NFLX: Netflix Stock Plummets On Weak Outlooks, Downgrades 2011
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Her "Willisville" online community, a wildly inventive precursor to something like Second Life, was devised with partner Prudence Fenton in the early 1990s -- years before most Americans even had AOL dial-up access or knew what a social network was -- and lauded by Fortune magazine as one of the emerging Internet's most exciting companies.
Kristi York Wooten: Legendary Songwriter Allee Willis Brings Her Party to the People Kristi York Wooten 2011
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Don't know that much about why other sites wouldnt give you trouble, but this could be a site that doesnt do well with dial-up.
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Don't know that much about why other sites wouldnt give you trouble, but this could be a site that doesnt do well with dial-up.
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The vast majority of users, however, still endure the screeches of a dial-up modem due to the country's weak broadband infrastructure.
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The company remains partly in the slower dial-up business, which makes up some 40% of revenue.
EarthLink Buys Fiber-Network Operator Roger Cheng 2010
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