Comment 33 for bug 310331

The purpose of trying to find an access method for dialup was to help alleviate the lack of documentation and the failure of anyone to recognize there was no support for dial up in the mailed out Intrepid disc.
This is in concurrence with remarks by Jessie Weinstein.

That said the ppp package and any other package which securely supports dial up needs to be added to the future versions of the mailed out CD if you wish to retain dial up users. Also there was a lack of information in the way of work-arounds to get Intrepid on line to begin with, as noted above for the configuration of wvdial "sudo wvdialconfig" was not in the documentation and the additional adding of personal information, maybe that was forgotton on the mail out disc as well.

Also the network administrator seems to have no bearing or purpose on connecting to the internet via dial up and once removed has no effect on the ability to make the connection. This should either be noted or corrected.
It would be nice if all could access through the updated technology but it seems highly questionable to lose so many Linux users in an effort to be "modern."