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From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
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Subject: Re: Cable modems
To: henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu (Charles Henrich)
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 20:02:57 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: terry@lambert.org, michaelh@cet.co.jp, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <19970610225010.32367@crh.cl.msu.edu> from "Charles Henrich" at Jun 10, 97 10:50:10 pm
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As Charles Henrich wrote...
> On the subject of Re: Cable modems, Terry Lambert stated:
> 
> > The rest of us live in the armpit of the telecommunications
> > industry (like US West and TCI cablevision) and we don't have
> 
> Hey careful!  I *am* in TCI land, and this TCI is the best cable system I've
> ever seen.
> 
> > I suspect Europe and Australia to have universal high speed
> > access *long* before the US, simple because you guys don't

Come on, it's only 5-6 years ago I finally got a tone dial phone switch
instead of the mechanical one.

> And you have moronic consumers in the United states who cry "I have to pay $70
> a month for a 10mbit link to thie internet?  Waaahh thats rediculus!  I wanna
> pay $5!"

I'd settle for $70.. I suppose it would set you back multiple 1000 $ here...

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