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Those are some remarkably tenuous justifications for why the product is desirable.

• Lammy 5y ago
  I'm curious what year their statistics came from for "In North America alone there are 28 billion dialup transactions, which make up over 60% of all the transactions". The oldest Wayback snapshot of that page is from 2014, and while it's surely gone down since then I still run into them from time to time especially in rural areas or those little standalone ATMs in places that don't otherwise have POS. They might still be installed in lots of those places even if a faster connection is usually used. I've experienced that even within the last year at a gas station when their satellite connection went down and there was a big line due to every card transaction taking 40+ seconds.
  • jcrawfordor 5y ago
    I used to work in a store with a credit card terminal that normally used the internet but was hooked up to a phone line as a backup. When the internet went out the line would back up because the dialing process was so slow, but at least we were still in business. Seems like this is probably still a reasonable backup measure for retailers to have in place, if you already have a phone line it doesn't cost you much.