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To: shadowman who wrote (23270)	11/7/2001 2:29:46 PM
From: dave rose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

<<<All in all I personally don't see the advantage that I thought that I would.>> Does tying up your phone line while on line have anything to do with you decision? My wife would insist on another phone line if I was to go back to local ISP.

To: shadowman who wrote (23270)	12/7/2001 12:45:45 PM
From: shadowman	Respond to of 110652

Not Yet Up To Speed Consumer demand for fast Internet connection has been slow to grow newsday.com By Jon Van THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE. The Chicago Tribune is a Tribune Co. newspaper December 5, 2001 THOSE IN THE computer industry who devise high-tech gadgets for mass markets are confronting what to them is an unthinkable possibility: The average consumer may not want a super- fast connection to the Internet. After years of extolling the nirvana awaiting us once American households get so-called broadband connectivity to the Web, telecommunications executives have become deeply frustrated that a lot of Internet users are saying no thanks. While some 8 million customers have broadband service - about 11 percent of all Internet users - more than 61 million others still access the Web using dial-up services, the report found. Contrary to what technophiles believed, most people don't want to pay extra to make their Internet go faster, Miller said. One study cited by the information technology group found that among customers who now have dial-up Internet connections, only 12 percent were willing to pay $40 a month for broadband, which is at the low end of today's prices. Indeed, only about one in three dial-up customers said they would pay $25 a month for broadband, which is just a few dollars more than what dial-up service costs. "Zippier e-mail and faster Web surfing just don't appeal to the mass market," he said.