On Thursday 10 August 2006 06:16, Luddite Coonan wrote: > But for most people, a connection of 1.5mbps > is currently adequate to deliver them the services and downloads they > want. For others, they may want faster connections and these are
Why is it that such people always extrapolate from their very own private needs to "most people"? At least in my area I do not know a single broadband user who is satisfied with 1.5 mbps, and I know pretty much every single one of them since I fought for three years and went from door to door to get signatures to get ADSL for our area in the first place. The first few month everybody was happy, and once they realized what they *could* do if they had real broadband, the faces dropped again. > Broadband take-up in Australia is also strong. In 2001 Australia only > had 120,000 broadband subscribers. We are now approaching our four > millionth broadband connection – only five years later. Australia now > has the sixth fastest growing broadband market in the OECD (Organisation > of Economic Cooperation and Development). Ah, how easy it is to grow fast in percentages when one is a dwarf. Going from virtually nothing to just a bit is a huge jump in percentage, but little in real terms. Saturated markets simply can't grow any more, whereas here the market is virginal and almost untouched. Of course it bloody well will grow, even with the pathetic offer at extortionist prices we are confromted with. No thanks to the government nor Telstra for that growth anyway - they have been doing their best for too many years to suffocate any attempt at establishing a broadband market in the first place.. Horst _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
