UK prefers broadband to dial-up

Broadband has officially overtaken dial-up as the most popular way for
Britons to connect to the internet, government statistics show.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4696613.stm

john

On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 17:33:31 +0100 JohnT <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> Broadband has officially overtaken dial-up as the most popular way for
> Britons to connect to the internet, government statistics show.

Government statistics? Well... must be true then. :-)

"Broadband has officially overtaken dial-up as the most popular way for
>> Britons to connect to the internet, government statistics show."

unless, of course you are a BT engineer, then you are still using a
tempremental dial up system on a 266 PII CF-27 with win 95/98 as your OS.
Kinda 'lead by example' that......

Steve Lispcombe wrote:
> "Broadband has officially overtaken dial-up as the most popular way
> for
>>> Britons to connect to the internet, government statistics show."
>
> unless, of course you are a BT engineer, then you are still using a
> tempremental dial up system on a 266 PII CF-27 with win 95/98 as your
> OS. Kinda 'lead by example' that......

So you got missed out to?

On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 17:33:31 +0100, JohnT <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>Broadband has officially overtaken dial-up as the most popular way for
>Britons to connect to the internet, government statistics show.
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4696613.stm
>
>john

Not rocket science is it!

In message <42dd5063$0$2966$(E-Mail Removed)>, Steve
Lispcombe <(E-Mail Removed)> writes
>unless, of course you are a BT engineer, then you are still using a
>tempremental dial up system on a 266 PII CF-27 with win 95/98 as your OS.
Oooh, a toughbook user, quality machine once you've worked out the model
number! Do they still have the built in cell-modem?
>Kinda 'lead by example' that......
>
>

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Clint Sharp