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"Mike Doyle" <mike.doyle_RE@move_optushome.com.au> wrote in message
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> In article <abqa3s$kagko$1@ID-69072.news.dfncis.de>, "Rod Speed"
> <rod_speed@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Mike Doyle <mike.doyle_RE@move_optushome.com.au> wrote in message
> > news:3ce0a706$0$4696$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...
> >> Snoopy <tennyson@caverock.net.nz.n-osp-am> wrote
> >
> >>> ISDN (integrated services digital network), DSL (digital subscriber
> >>> lines) or some sort of wireless alternative? Where is the future for
> >>> Australia and New Zealand?
> >
> >>> I read an article that says Australia is years behind some Asian
> >>> countries (June 2001 figures:  Aus market population penetration 1% vs
> >>> South Korea 12%).   Does this matter?
> >


> >
> >>> The same article went on to prerdict that the main driver of broadband
> >>> use would be  a tendency of companies to operate software by buying a
> >>> subscription licence 'off site'.
> >
> >> That is a load of codswallop.
> >
> >>> My impression was that this was a fantasy, but are there any companies
> >>> in Australia or New Zealand doing it?
> >
> >> Microsoft.
The reference is to Application Service Providers, of which there are
already numerous, in Australia and New Zealand, some even doing a reasonably
good job. A search on the term should pop up some familiar names.

Ken