Alan Parkington <patriot@iheartaustralia.com.au> wrote:

> From
> http://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/...2830_news.html

> INTERNET users in Geelong and the Surf Coast can now tap into high-speed broadband in a major breakthrough for the
> region.

Bare faced lie. Nothing even remotely resembling anything
like a 'breakthru', let alone anything like a major one.

> Telstra yesterday activated its ADSL2+ broadband at 19 local telephone exchanges, providing customers with the fastest
> available speeds of 20 megabits per second.

Well whoopy fucking do. And charge like a wounded bull for the use of them too.

> Telstra Business Group managing director Deena Shiff

Must be a wog with a name like that.

> said regional users could now get fixed speeds which were previously only available in capital cities.

Well whoopy fucking do. Pity how much you slug them to use those.

> "As well as being able to do everyday online activities a whole lot faster,

Lie.

> it also opens up the door to a whole new range of communications opportunities such as video conferencing," she said.

Lie.

> Optimal ADSL2+ speeds are up to 350 times faster than a standard 56kbps dial-up connection,

Irrelevant.

> and up to 70 times faster than a standard 256kbps ADSL connection.

Pity you should be comparing it with the 8Mb that adsl1 can do, fuckwit.

> Speeds will depend on the users' distance from the exchange.

So your ratios are a bare faced lie for everyone.

> Across Australia, the telco giant will switch on the service at more than 900 telephone exchanges.

And with any luck the ACCC will force them to resell those too
and force telstra to charge the resellers a much lower fee too.

> The new exchanges will serve more than 2.4 million users across the
> country, including more than 600,000 homes and businesses in Victoria.

Whoopy fucking do. And fuck all will bother to pay your outrageous ripoff charges.