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Article #158Re: Tell Telstra to stop sending you dead trees.
From: Rod Speed
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:04
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:04
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terryc wrote > David Clayton wrote >> terryc wrote >>> The other issue is how many people have fast reliable broadband and >>> can afford to keep a computer running to sit down and open >>> whitepages.com.au and look up a number? I suspect t is still a small >>> percentage. >> You have to be joking?, at the end of 2009 there were over 9,000,000 >> non-dial up connections > And this is from the organisation that says if you worked for ONE(1) > hour in a fortnight, that you are employed! It isnt the ABS that said that. > Note, none of which implies that they can in reasonable time reliably > access the online white pages AND have the computer to do so. >> and less than 1,000,000 dial-up. > So, over 10% of the country absolutely needs printed directories. Nope, the online white pages works fine using dialup. > and I suspect another 50% would have such bad broadband and/or can > not afford a modern computer to handle the bloatware of whitepages online. More fool you.
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