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According to this, as of 2022, in the US, only 175k households were still using dial-up Internet service from any provider. That's not a lot of people.
https://www.reviews.org/internet-service/how-many-us-households-are-without-internet-connection/
I'm guessing that many of those realistically have other landline options and just haven't switched.
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The amusingly-named-given-the-context dslextreme.com apparently continues to offer nationwide dial-up service.
https://www.dslextreme.com/dialup/residential
I suppose that someone who was determined to use dial-up access and didn't want some form of wireless service and didn't want or couldn't get access to non-POTS landline service and had been using AOL could switch to them.
EDIT: It looks like it's still possible to get POTS modems on Amazon. I suspect that that's mostly for people using fax systems.