On 23.12.2003 14:35, "Alexandre Kapellos" <mac.k at a2k.ch> wrote: > > Le mardi, 23 déc 2003, à 20:55 Europe/Zurich, Dr. Trevor J. Hutley a > écrit : > >> >> Being based in a country with the lowest quality and most expensive >> telephone network in the world (?!), I am looking for alternative >> communication technology, using my G4 Powerbook. >> > trevor, > i'm intrigued! true, swisscom is very expensive, thanks to the monopoly > it has on the "last mile" all over the country. believe me, though, > swisscom is nowhere as bad or as expensive as greece's telecom... (i'm > half greek, btw). > but what makes you say it's bad quality? enlighten me! i use swisscom > for everything: fix, gsm and adsl... > > regards, > alexandre > > Alexandre, Trevor is not in Geneva or Lausanne with us at the moment, he is in Saudi Arabia...that is the country's system he is referring to. Trevor, I will forward, off-list, some specific options for you there in SA. Cheers FRED FClarke http://www.theseedsproject.org