A new study contradicts some commonly held beliefs about people who use dial-up internet service.  We’ve long been assuming that they didn’t have access to broadband service–that they lived in too rural an area to be able to trade up.

Seems that idea is wrong.

The survey shows that only 14% are “stuck with dial-up” because they can’t get a faster service where they live.  35% say they stay on dial-up because of prices–they can’t afford broadband.

Perhaps the most surprising number?  The 19% of dial-up users who say nothing you do or say could convince them to give it up for something else.

That’s staggering to me.  They’re tech-savvy enough to want to be on the internet, but old-fashioned enough to stubbornly cling to 2 minute page loads even if that same page could load in 2 seconds if they swapped up to broadband?!?!  Weird.

How many of you still have dial-up?  Yeah, that’s what I thought.