- Date
- 2009-12-08
- Kind
- Closure
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- communicationtechnologyinfrastructure
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The September 2009 Beaver Beacon announced that Beaver Island’s legacy BIIP dial-up Internet service was scheduled to end on December 8, 2009, as newer broadband service expanded. A contemporaneous forum notice gives the same shutdown date for the local modem pool and preserves TDS’s then-current deployment expectation.
Evidence limits
These sources record a scheduled closure and competing provider expectations; they do not establish the exact service transition date or every subscriber’s replacement service.
Sources
See the sources block above.
Sources
- A subscriber reports that TDS would not add Beaver Island dial-up customers and that the available interim options appeared to be satellite or other providers while DSL expansion was still only hoped for; this documents a user's transition problem, not a provider-wide policy record.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 02 · t002019
- Community notice reports the planned December 8 closure of Great Lakes Energy's on-island dial-up modem pool and associated email account, while a reply predicts DSL availability. The post is contemporaneous service information, but the provider's notice and later network records would control the actual dates and replacement service.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 01 · t001821
- Beaver Beacon, September 2009, "The Dial-Up Era’s Over."Reports the planned December 8 end of BIIP dial-up service after Great Lakes Energy and TransWorld Network involvement. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2009-09_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan confirms the service-closure notice.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2009-09_Beaver-Beacon
- Beaver Beacon, October 2009, "Complications."Reports that TDS delayed large-scale DSL rollout until the first quarter of 2010 after a microwave-upgrade problem, while Island Telephone and Beaver Island Broadband pursued stimulus funding. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2009-10_Beaver-Beacon
- The held October issue scan confirms the delayed-DSL and competing broadband proposals.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2009-10_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island’s legacy BIIP dial-up Internet service is scheduled to end, 2009”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-dial-up-service-closure-2009/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Island Forum, "Losing Dial Up? Don't waste your time....," November 10, 2009. (and 5 further sources listed on the page).
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