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To: Mike Torrence who wrote (126172)	12/24/2002 2:15:46 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Yesterday, doing my usual last minute shopping, I went out to Botany Downs [a large new shopping centre built like a small town]. There was a free cyberspace stand there. A single screen and keyboard. No seat. A roller ball cursor movement. You can enter urls, get Silicon Investor, log in and type. I don't think you can shut the browser though, so I didn't want to login or some crazies might start typing all sorts of weird stuff in my name. Cyberspace shops are proliferating downtown and charging only US$1 per hour with fast connections. Cyberspace is now more common than phone boxes in Auckland. It still isn't mobile, but RoamAD is working on that. Telecom is too dopey and greedy to make it go [the usual overcharging and trying to control what the customer does - as per engineer's frustrations over Sprint and Verizon who are not just happy to provide a cheap pipe]. Telecom is charging about US$3 per megabyte for cdma2000 1xRTT data. I've got a birthday present still to be used from November for a CDMA phone of my choice. I'm waiting for the Kyocera 7135 or maybe a Cyberbank, or Treo, or the like to be available. Phones are a popular gift [various prices to suit many pockets, personal and fun]. Mqurice