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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Cable modems
To: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl (Wilko Bulte)
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> > > 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.

Congradulations.  Be thankful you do not live in a small Southern Utah
town which shall be nameless, where US West just installed a mechanical
phone swicth with the intent of amortizing it across its remaining
"useful life" of 8 years.



					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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