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

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

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

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

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

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

CA>TA> Not sure Chuck. I suspect while many others talk into it,
CA>TA> we tend to be more doers.

CA>TA> (Kinda reminds me of the old quote that: "The English write
CA>TA> about it, the Irish dramatize it, the French talk about it,
CA>TA> the Italians sing about it; but the Americans do it 8-)

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

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

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

Ciao, Ack.

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