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In article <334d5b6c.3172082@news.demon.co.uk>
           antispam@feverish.demon.co.uk "Robert Wilderspin" writes:

> On Thu, 10 Apr 97 07:48:07 GMT, bhk@dsl.co.uk (Brian {Hamilton Kelly})
> wrote:
> 
> >But Graham is a Demon customer, posting from a .co.uk address into the
> >newsgroup demon.tech.modems --- the whole of the UK has had a fully-
> >digital backbone for at least two years (possibly longer).  Moreover,
> >there's only a very few non-digital electronic exchanges left (something
> >well down in the low single figures as a percentage) --- and absolutely
> >no mechanical ones whatsoever.  
> 
> Some stuff that BT sent me yesterday said that 92% was digital.  I
> think that I'm in the 8% that uses carrier pigeons carrying punch
> cards.

Aha!  Someone has implemented RFC-1149 then?  Getting back to the point,
8% is a single-figure percentage, but I'd thought that the actual figure
was more like 3 or 4 --- I'm sure I heard a spokeperson say something
like that on local radio the other day when Salisbury was eventually
upgraded.  All the same, it's streets ahead of the USofA, where there are
still great chunks of non-digital trunks, if others' reports are to be
believed.

-- 
Brian {Hamilton Kelly}                                         bhk@dsl.co.uk
    "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce
     the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know
     this is not true."            Robert Wilensky, University of California