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Article #170Re: Tell Telstra to stop sending you dead trees.
From: David Clayton
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2010 05:46
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2010 05:46
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On Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:44:01 +1000, David Clayton wrote: > On Mon, 06 Sep 2010 00:37:30 +0000, 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 less than 1,000,000 dial-up. > > http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/mf/8153.0/ Sorry, make that 8,000,000 non-dial-up. Still makes the 1M dial-up the "small percentage" and that quantity has no doubt has dropped even further since 12/09. -- Regards, David. David Clayton Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Knowledge is a measure of how many answers you have, intelligence is a measure of how many questions you have.
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