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Cell phone is officially busted...it doesn't want to charge.

If you need to get hold of me, send me an email. Thanks.

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$48.50 a month for a 100Mb up/100Mb down connection in Hong Kong.

I pay $45/month now for 4Mb down/384kb up. Hong Kong makes US prices look absolutely insane. And while this may be a statistical outlier, it isn't much of one. France Telecom sells 18Mb down/800kb up DSL plus digital cable for $50/month. Canadian ISPs offer 5Mb down DSL for $45/month. Meanwhile, Americans settle for 2 Mb down for the same price.

And every time we bitch about slow speeds, the telcos bitch at us about "overutilized resources". Translation: we're using the net more for filesharing and online video than we are for looking at websites and checking e-mail. Yeeeeah.

1998 called, it wants its fiber back.