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Broadband takes over – at last

Statistics New Zealand reveals that broadband users in New Zealand now finally exceed dial-up users: … the number of broadband subscribers went up 14.4 per cent to 829,300, in the six months to September 2007 and overtook dial-up subscribers. Subscribers with a dial-up connection fell 8.6 per cent from March 2007 to 675,800. [Via : [...]

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Go broadband

How do you connect to the Internet? If you use your own computer, rather than a public connection, your choices are between dial-up and broadband. [First published July 2006.] A dial-up connection is one where you connect a modem to your phone line. While the modem’s using the phone line you can’t make voice calls [...]

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