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Broadband's Unintended Consequences

Makarand writes "BBC News is reporting on the result of a long term study conducted to find how ordinary people and small businesses in and around London and Leeds used broadband. They found that broadband was actually slowing down user interaction with the Net as they are no longer afraid of spending too much time online anymore. People did not really care about the speed at which they could download from the Net. Broadband's selling points- like speed and the capacity to be always-on, were something that the average person did not care about."

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  1. Re:Pull the other one. by UranusReallyHertz · · Score: 0, Redundant

    You must be Canadian.

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