Ah yes, mobile broadband. Very handy indeed those things.

Only if they're those thumb-drive shaped ones or they go into your PCMCIA slot. I hate those big dongle ones that are shaped like a mouse and has a wire. Damn those evil, evil things. You know the one.

I can imagine from the description but I've never actually seen them. The only one's I've been exposed to are the pen drives or the PCMCIA variety. A little external doohickey does sound absolutely crap though.

Here's the one. Scroll to the second one.

optus cable broadband 10mbps (but I cannot download faster than 500kbs. i think my wireless lan is to blame. cause when i was on cable i did achieve 1Mb per second)
20Gb peak {12pm to 12am} 40Gb off peak<12am to 12pm>
63 bucks a month
phone:
optus
30 bucks a month
don't watch TV. everything i need i get either on DVDs or via internet.

Internet: Turk Telekom
Mobile: Turkcell
TV: Digiturk

Thats a lot of turk!

Yeap. We are so nationalist. :)

Internet - RDS.NET FiberLink : 30Mb/s in Romania / 5Mb/s elsewhere
Home phone: RDS.TEL
TV: RCS
phone + internet = 9$
tv~7$

Internet: NebulaZone ADSL 3/1
TV: Sony V4000 40", Dali Lektor 6 & NAD C355BEE
Phone: Nokia E51 Black Steel

It's not so much a matter of choice, but rather that cable companies (and telcos for that matter) sign various agreements with municipalities, which gives the cable company or telco a monopoly for that area. The biggest problem is that the infrastructure is pretty much a natural monopoly, so whoever is allowed by local government to lay down fiber first basically holds all the cards. What really needs to happen is that the infrastructure and service provided over it need to be separated (like we have with electricity, water, etc); only once this happens can we really see some competition. I'm not exactly holding my breath waiting for this to happen, though.

oh
cell company: 3
I enjoy 3g greatly. watching south park, listening to music. video calls can be useful too.

So, the cities sign contracts that prohibit new competitors from working in an area that's already covered by another provider? This is getting better and better.

Oh, if you think that's good just listen to this one. Back in the mid 1990s there was a push to get high speed broadband connections rolled out to the entire US. As part of this plan, a deal was entered into with most of the major telcos: they got some changes to state laws that were favorable to them, as well as $200 billion in tax breaks and other incentives, and in exchange they were supposed to lay fiber all across the US so that most households would have a 45 Mbps symmetric connection by 2006. The telcos got all of the tax breaks and law changes as planned. Now, who here from the US has anywhere even close to a 45 Mbps symmetric connection? The telcos pretty much just pocketed all the money and did nothing, and now we're getting complaints from them that they need to start throttling connections and introducing bandwidth caps because people are using too much of the 3 Mbps asymmetric connections that they have, and their infrastructure just can't handle that.

God that's really infuriating, and I don't even live in the States!