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Re: Tell Telstra to stop sending you dead trees.

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From: B J Foster
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:20
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David Clayton wrote:
> 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.
> 

Makes you wonder why the Labor gubbermint wants to waste $2000/person 
building a network that we already have.
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Subject: Re: Tell Telstra to stop sending you dead trees.
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