Pascal Schmidt wrote in a message to Matt Mc_Carthy:

 PS> Hi Matt! :-)

 MM> According to recent Telecommunications hearings on C-SPAN, high speed 
 MM> access, whether DSL or cable is _still_ only available to 7% of the 
 MM> US population.  

 PS> Get a smaller country. ;) In Germany, about 80% of the population
 PS> can get DSL. The rest has to cope with ISDN (or analog if they
 PS> want, the prices of an analog phone line and ISDN are very
 PS> similar).

I wish they were here!

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