On 2008-05-03, ~kurt <actinouranium@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Richard James <rjames@invalid.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, 02 May 2008 08:18:59 +1000, Res wrote:
>>
>>> Dont move to Australia then, 60 is cheap, oh sure you get the sneaky
>>> bastards try advertise broadband from 29.95 but that includes like 1 or
>>> 2 hundred megs and typcially only on a 256/64 dsl, I'd do that a week in
>>> email alone.
>>
>
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>
>> Frankly I blame the government. Australia didn't have decent Internet
>> access before the privatisation of Telstra nor do we have it afterwards.
>> They have let our communications systems rot for so many decades it is
>> not funny, considering how much opportunity we had to switch to ISDN in
>> the 90's.
>
> This is actually a great example of how studies can so easily misrepresent
> reality. The " 2008 International Broadband Rankings", which was just posted
> to /. today, would claim Australia is doing a lot better than the US, and
> claims broadband costs almost 1/3 of what it costs here in the US:
>
><http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/05/02/1148205.shtml>
><http://www.itif.org/files/2008BBRankings.pdf>
>
> - Kurt

After looking at itif.org, looks like, smells like a lobby group rather than
a non-partisan organization - besides their domain registration is private -
strange for a non-partisan group. In addition, too many members of
congress give itif the thumbs up...

ken