Hi Chris, We pay 1.7p per minute during the day and 1p per minute at weekends for a local call. My provider charges me ten pounds per month for a full internet connection a domain name pop three mail and up to four mail boxes, but as many prefixes before the @ sign as you can think of. I have a lot to do with a local computer shop he is selling approximately five modems a week that's just one retail outlet. I read somewhere that there are three thousand new subscribers to the internet in the U.K. per month. But you know what stats are. The U.K. piano page gets about a hundred and seventy definite visitors from the U.K. and the rest from all over the world. Its the Compserve ones and atol which are hard to work out which Country they originate from as their main feed servers are in the U.S. some where so unless I trace route everyone which to date there has just been over ten thousand visitors in just over six months. If you look at the consumer statistics the number one desirable product in the U.K. was a dish washer, but now apparently that has been taken over by a computer with a modem. Sadly I think the piano has slipped out the top ten but I think in Germany its still in the top five. Quite useful these statistics but not aways accurate. Take care, Barrie. In article <199610290540.WAA45820@huey.cadvision.com>, CHRIS GREGG <cgregg@cadvision.com> writes >On a recent trip to England I realised that the reason people are slow to >get onto the internet there is that it they pay by the minute for local >telephone calls. So you can imagine the bill that they could ring up if >they were to spend time surfing the net. People who work in a University >or some other establishment that has direct access to the net are in a >different playing field. I look forward to hearing more from >Inernational Piano Technicians. > > >Chris Gregg RPT > > -- Barrie Heaton | Be Environmentally Friendly URL: http://www.airtime.co.uk/forte/piano.htm | To Your Neighbour The UK PIano Page | pgp key on request | HAVE YOUR PIANO TUNED
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