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Posted by Charles Newman on September 5, 2007, 7:54 pm
> Jeff Liebermann wrote:
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>> There are probably some more excuses I've forgotten. These are not
>> fabrications but real (paraphrased) excuses I've heard over the years.
>> Granted, it's a small number of potential broadband customers, but it
>> does reflect some real concerns that seem to have escaped the author
>> of the article.
>>
>> Incidentally, the situation was not much different in 1995, when
>> dialup was the new thing and internet access became fashionable:
>> <http://groups.google.com/group/rec.humor.funny.reruns/msg/cf65ec30ee3d1e33>
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> Funny, you left off the most common answer (and one that I use too).. Why?
> I pay about $9 a month for dialup, and cable is about $50 a month.... Why
> spend about $40 a month, just to get junkmail/spam faster?
Three words:
Microsoft Seurity Updates
many of them are far too large to download on a dialup line. Why
spend over an hour just to download one seurituy update, when
can use broadband and download it in seconds. I, of course, am
one of those who believes that saving time is more important than
saving money.
You should change your priorities and put saving time ahead of
saving money.
>
> Or how bout I travel a lot, and the broadband will only work when I am at
> one place, not the 50 weeks a year I travel....:)
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