Frank,

Don't hold your breath, but ......... Mr. Bill "Big Bucks" Gates is
working on a plan that will make internet available worldwide in every
location on the planet. I seem to recall there was talk about a satelite
system with multiple satelites especially for this purpose. It would
amount to direct Satelite service to any satelite dish antenna in the
world. This could certainly enable folks in more remote areas and some
not so remote.

Of course it raises the question of exactly who is going to be the
traffic cop for all those satelites whizzing around the earth, put there
by various countries. And on top of the collision risk, China now thinks
that the Satelites are  her clay pidgeons in a world class space
shooting gallery!

Regards,

John Rodgers
88 GL Driver

Frank Condelli wrote:
> In a message dated 20/02/2007 12:07:39 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> LISTSERV@GERRY.VANAGON.COM writes:
>
> If  you've got high speed internet access
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>
>
>
>         Are you kidding ?  Out  in the wilds of greater downtown Almonte
> there is NO high speed Internet - not  yet anyways - and no plans to bring it out
> here as far as I know - but I've been  wrong before - back in '72.  Listening
> to Sirius Disorder BTW.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Frank  Condelli
> Almonte, Ontario, Canada
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