Not just that, but, as I understand it, with some of the modern digital phone systems, they won’t work properly even if you did have someplace to call.
And 2400 baud was quite useful for a personal NNTP feed.
And 2400 baud was quite useful for a personal NNTP feed.
I remember dialing into a BBS in the mid 2010s over an international phone call going through a late-stage digital switch locally (possibly one of the later AXE switches but I have no way of knowing for sure anymore), and the call would almost have to have gone through lossy compression on its way to the US.
slip/plip/ppp is workable from 1200 baud up.