On 3/11/06, at 2:43 PM, Kirk McElhearn kirklists at wanadoo.fr said: >Yeah, for once France is ahead of the curve. They've been pushing >ADSL here for a while, and, since cable is pretty much inexistent >(people get pay TV via satellite), they're now offering TV over ADSL. In Florida, we are getting 5Mbps to 7Mbps and can even get speeds up to 15 Mbps with some upgrades. Didn't France's Minitel system help to get them ahead of the curve? Tom Miller .................................................. "The only time we see the middle of the road is as we run from side to side." R.O.Clark ...................................................