Re: Tell Telstra to stop sending you dead trees.

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From: Rod Speed
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2010 23:38

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David Clayton wrote
> 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?

Nope, try listing what they cant do with a decent ADSL2+ service right now.

> How people can't see this painfully obvious fact -
> otherwise people would still be on 300 baud modems

Even sillier.

> - baffles most with more than two working brain cells.

You're too cruel to yourself.

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From: "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Tell Telstra to stop sending you dead trees.
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