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Hello Thurston - 

CA>>>> There has always been a tendency to overstate where the
CA>>>> bleeding edge of technology really is in the USA. Here
CA>>>> are some numbers to put to all those fantasies. ;-) 

CA>>>> http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?
CA>>>> pagename=FT.com/StoryFT /FullStory&cid=1069493486004 

CA>>>> "Broadband internet began a few years ago and has
CA>>>> reached now 6.9 per cent of the population in America
CA>>>> and 2.3 per cent in the UK. Several countries, most
CA>>>> notably South Korea, have higher penetrations (21.4 per
CA>>>> cent)." 

CA>>>> "Using mobile phone penetration as an example, Hungary
CA>>>> (67.60), Estonia (65.02), the Slovak Republic (54.36),
CA>>>> and Croatia (53.50) all had higher mobile phone
CA>>>> penetration than the United States (48.81) in 2002.
CA>>>> Mobile telephony was only the start; broadband could be
CA>>>> next." 

CA>>>> ============== 

CA>>>> Some damage to our image of ourselves as technocrats eh?
CA>>>> ;-) 

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CA>> I will grant that statistics often misrepresent the very
CA>> thing they are intended to clarify but there is a marked
CA>> tendency for FIDO users to consider a cable connect as
CA>> 'normal' and it's not as common as many would have us
CA>> believe it is based on these numbers. Not even close to
CA>> 'normal' in the USA. 

TA> But one meets so many more friends on FIDO than one would
TA> meet talking one on one on a mobile phone. (And it kinda
TA> pleasantly reminds me of old Ham radio 10 meter days,
TA> especially when sun spot activity was high 8-) 

TA> 73's Ack W1SHX (wife's one silverhaired xrayman) _ . _ . 

Yes, I see where Ackerman comes in handy. You can "ACK" all
transmissions. ;-) 

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