-> The mini stations thing got spread here a lot before cable internet, or dsl. If
-> my memory isn't too wrong it was in the beginning of the 90s.

 Actualy the Phone Companies here really dropped the ball. If they had
had jumped in like over there they could have had High Speed Internet
services almost to themselves. 
Their actions was something like in the early days of computers when
someone said we would NEVER have a need for more than 512K RAM!!  :-)
:-)
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