[Techtalk] Linux and home Internet connections

[Kenneth Gonsalves]

On Tuesday 23 Aug 2005 9:40 am, Mary wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2005, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
> > would have thought that gprs is the best option for occasional
> > diallup. *Everyone* has a cell phone.
>
> Depends on your location. In Australia, outgoing calls from a
> mobile (cell) phone are relatively expensive. Unless you're willing
> to pay a base rate of about $150 a month, it's hard to get calls
> cheaper than 45c/minute. It would want to be pretty occasional use

in india you can get gprs with pretty good connectivity for INR 700 a 
month - and hopefully pesky cell-phone users will be so busy surfing 
that they wont annoy fellow travellers :-)
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