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There should be locally accessible dial-up accounts everywhere in North
America with unlimited  (by time) service for around twenty bucks a
month. Below twenty bucks a month is the going "come on" rate for either
high speed cable or for DSL from the entity that in the US at least
looks more and more like "the phone company" of old. So lots of time
and in lots of places broadband is now currently cheaper than dial-up!
Go figure. The dial up ISP's are falling by the boards--unless they can
offer boradband access somehow. There are various microwave schemes for
rural areas and then there is satellite service.

High speed internet via satellite dish should be available "anywhere
in North America with a clear view of the southern sky" for maybe sixty
or seventy bucks a month. Or so says the adverts.

I still have dial-up because I think there should be a choice other
than the huge cable company or the "phone company". (which here in
Michigan is currently calling itself AT&T again after Ameritech went
to SBC and then bought out the remains of AT&T.

I can get a DSL from my current ISP but then I have to have local
phone service with AT&T, which I don't want. My ISP resells DSL for
the phone company. I feel bullied, so do without. Maybe I'm just
being cranky--but I liked it more when there were choices and more
than two or three companies competing. But that's capitalism for
you.



Ray Andrews said:
> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
>
> On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 23:31:46 -0400, Brian C. Murphy wrote:
>
>> I am not sure if Ray is back with the Vancouver Community Net as his
>> ISP,
>> but the timing of the (2 day for me) ISP failure would suggest he is.
>
>> When you consider the commercial rates at Compuserve, where I ran my
>> browser for a few years with $20 - $70 MONTHLY BILLS, compared to the
>> $25
>> annual tax decuctible donation I pay at the Vancouver Community net, the
>> annoyance of a 2 day service failure is not such a big burden.
>
> Amen!
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Ray Andrews
>
> -- Arachne:A1b:0e
>
>                   Arachne at FreeLists
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>
>

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