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Hello

I was wondering why people in the the UK cannot subscribe to...say an
american broadband supplier, who are faster and a damn site cheaper.
When I surf the net I can go almost anywhere in the world and use foreign
facillities and downloads so why not Isps.
Tacky.

On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 19:34:06 -0000, "tacky" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>Hello
>
>I was wondering why people in the the UK cannot subscribe to...say an
>american broadband supplier, who are faster and a damn site cheaper.

An ISP is providing a service over phone or cable lines, he has to
connect to the lines somewhere himself so you can connect to him. If
you subscribed to a US ISP, you'd have to connect over the
international lines, which would be a) very expensive and b) probably
impossible as DSL signal isn't routed over such lines.

>When I surf the net I can go almost anywhere in the world and use foreign
>facillities and downloads so why not Isps.

An ISP is a physical entity. You could as well ask "why can't I shop
with Walmart, its cheaper than Tesco?"

tacky wrote:
> Hello
>
> I was wondering why people in the the UK cannot subscribe to...say an
> american broadband supplier, who are faster and a damn site cheaper.
> When I surf the net I can go almost anywhere in the world and use
> foreign facillities and downloads so why not Isps.
> Tacky.

Pray tell us which US ISP will lay a metalic path to our houses so we can
avail ourselfs to these wonderful offerings????

U a preacher Kraftee?
Tacky
"kraftee" <kraftee@spamoff& die.com> wrote in message
news:42091656$0$36639$(E-Mail Removed)...
> tacky wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> I was wondering why people in the the UK cannot subscribe to...say an
>> american broadband supplier, who are faster and a damn site cheaper.
>> When I surf the net I can go almost anywhere in the world and use
>> foreign facillities and downloads so why not Isps.
>> Tacky.
>
> Pray tell us which US ISP will lay a metalic path to our houses so we can
> avail ourselfs to these wonderful offerings????
>
>

In article <420919f7$0$29400$(E-Mail Removed)>,
(E-Mail Removed), a.k.a tacky says...

> U a preacher Kraftee?

Do you normally ask such stupid questions...

> was wondering why people in
> the the UK cannot subscribe to...
> say an american broadband supplier

oh sorry, yes, you do.

tacky wrote:
> U a preacher Kraftee?
> Tacky
> "kraftee" <kraftee@spamoff& die.com> wrote in message
> news:42091656$0$36639$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> tacky wrote:
>>> Hello
>>>
>>> I was wondering why people in the the UK cannot subscribe to...say
>>> an american broadband supplier, who are faster and a damn site
>>> cheaper. When I surf the net I can go almost anywhere in the world
>>> and use foreign facillities and downloads so why not Isps.
>>> Tacky.
>>
>> Pray tell us which US ISP will lay a metalic path to our houses so
>> we can avail ourselfs to these wonderful offerings????

No just pissed of with people who post from their bottoms, I suppose I
should have put a sarcastic smiley in there, but it would have just gone
over the OP's I.Q.....