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Article #173Re: Tell Telstra to stop sending you dead trees.
From: David Clayton
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:32
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:32
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On Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:20:44 +1000, B J Foster wrote: > David Clayton wrote: ....... >>> 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. Because it is bloody obvious that people progressively want higher data rates for what they do now let alone what they may do with future applications using their connections? How people can't see this painfully obvious fact - otherwise people would still be on 300 baud modems - baffles most with more than two working brain cells. -- 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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