<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On 20/09/2010, at 3:17 PM, Matthew Moyle-Croft wrote:</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite">3G certainly doesn't substitute for DSL at home</blockquote></div><div><br></div>I think for a LOT of people, especially older folks & students, it does.<div><div><br></div><div>FWIW I know a lot of people in both groups who ditched all fixed line </div><div>products for a mobile and a 3G sim.</div><div><br></div><div>I think the very affordable price point of basic access to broadband </div><div>over 3G explains why we have this:</div><div><br></div><div><i>"Digital subscriber line (DSL) continued to be the
major technology for </i></div><div><i>connections, accounting for 44% of the total
internet connections. However, </i></div><div><i>this percentage share has decreased since
December 2009 when DSL</i></div><div><i>represented 47% of the total connections."</i></div><div><i><br></i></div><div>If all you want to do is online banking, read the news each morning, </div><div>do a Google search or two, and watch a handful of youtube videos, </div><div>then 3G really hits that spot - especially when you can do it for $15</div><div>bucks a month.</div><div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div><div>-- Tom</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div><div><br></div></div><br><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>-- <br>Kind Regards,<br><br>Tom Wright<br>Internode Network Operations<br>P: +61 8 8228 2999<br>W: <a href="http://www.internode.on.net/">http://www.internode.on.net</a></div></div></span></span>
</div>
<br></div></div></div></body></html>