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Article #172Re: Tell Telstra to stop sending you dead trees.
From: B J Foster
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:20
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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