They're going the way of floppies but it's still odd for a laptop to not have a modem. Do the factory specs list one as optional or standard? I'd want to know if this model is a newer one that doesn't normally have one or an old one that's been stripped. If it's been pulled you might have a case.
Still, as others have said, it's a little like asking for three stubbed toes. 
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