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Article #175Re: Tell Telstra to stop sending you dead trees.
From: terryc
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 01:07
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 01:07
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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 this is from the organisation that says if you worked for ONE(1) hour in a fortnight, that you are employed! Note, none of which implies that they can in reasonable time reliably access the online white pages AND have the computer to do so. > and less than 1,000,000 dial-up. So, over 10% of the country absolutely needs printed directories. and I suspect another 50% would have such bad broadband and/or can not afford a modern computer to handle the bloatware of whitepages online.
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