Overview

• AOL confirmed it will deactivate all dial-up modems on September 30, 2025, effectively ending its legacy low-speed internet service.
• The company will remove the AOL Dialer and AOL Shield applications that supported connections over dial-up on older operating systems.
• The decision was announced quietly via a blog post on AOL’s help page without specifying how many users remain on the service.
• Industry data show AOL’s dial-up subscriber base declined from about 2.1 million in 2015 to only a few thousand by 2021.
• The shutdown reflects the long-standing obsolescence of dial-up technology in favor of modern broadband options such as ADSL and fiber.