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Skriven 2012-09-02 08:49:42 av Robert Bashe (2:2448/44)
   Kommentar till text 3231 av mark lewis (1:3634/12.0)
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mark lewis wrote to Bjorn Felten on Saturday September 01 2012 at 14:41:

BF>> Hasn't everybody in the civilized world internet access nowadays?

The question could be expressed more politely, but naturally the answer is
"no", if you consider "Internet eccess" only DSL access. You can naturally dial
up using a modem, and that will work nearly everywhere, but not many people are
inclined to do that because of the slow speed, even when cost is not a
consideration.

ml> no! some choose not to and others live in areas where there is poor
ml> coverage if there is any at all (Melita Island comes to mind)... then
ml> there're those where it is too expensive and the utilities in those
ml> areas want too much to put the equipment in place and make it
ml> available at a resonable price...

We in Germany don't generally have such problems, but there are still areas
where no (or only low-speed) DSL is available. All a matter of cost and return
for the providers. If the cost is greater than the return, there's no (or only
slow) DSL.

I expect the problems getting DSL are greater in rural America than in western
Europe, if only because of the population density.

Cheers, Bob

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