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On 7/09/2010 5:39 PM, Mark Newton wrote:
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Cry me a river. You're still getting better than most of the
broadband services
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<font size="-1"><font><font face="Trebuchet MS">Oopsie... forgot we
lived in Australia :P In this context, comparison to
somewhere else is stupid. And, see my other post re POP and
IT.<br>
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<div>My experience is that regional people care A LOT to get
broadband, it </div>
<div>really changes their lives. Simple things, like being able
to stay in touch</div>
<div>with the kids who have moved to the City via VoIP and
videochat</div>
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<font face="Trebuchet MS" size="-1"><font>Hah. Ok, then I'm basing
it on the fact that the ones I know prefer the outdoors, hate
computers, hate the phone, blah blah. They'd like to use the
fancy stuff you mention, but "it's all just too hard", "it
crashes all the time", ad finem. You must know some progressive
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<div>But they also don't care how fast it is. Again, in my
experience.</div>
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<font face="Trebuchet MS">Ok, so give them satellite, and don't
spend $43bil giving them something that is insanely overkill.</font></font></font><br>
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<div> - mark</div>
<div> [ who, for the record, is on a Telstra 8 Mbps ADSL1 port
with congested</div>
<div> backhaul, in a RIM -- But, like, whatever. ]</div>
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<font size="-1"><font><font face="Trebuchet MS">That must hurt,
given your employer :P<br>
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