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Published Date: 01 December 2007
MODELS Stephanie Watters and Diane Primrose braved the elements on Calton Hill with a couple of dalmatian pups to promote the plight of Scots who find themselves living in broadband "blackspots".
The glamorous handlers walked their dogs on the Edinburgh landmark as they helped to launch a new Scottish Government campaign which aims to encourage people to register for broadband.

The drive has been set up in a bid to get "out of reach" home users and businesses in blackspots across the country to register their details for broadband services before the cut-off date of January 18.



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  • Last Updated: 01 December 2007 11:19 AM
  • Source: Edinburgh Evening News
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Broadband
 
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sjs,

Edinburgh 01/12/2007 16:55:41

Oh yes, give them broadband. But perhaps British people would like to know how far Britain is doing in the world of internet speeds:

http://www.websiteoptimization.com/bw/0711/

See above website for a graph. The average speed of the internet advertised in Japan is 93 megabytes per second. In the United Kingdom the figure is... 10 megabytes per second.

Quite clearly our broadband is diabolical and lightyears behind the really developed countries of the world.

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King Banana,

here 03/12/2007 08:50:37

"MODELS Stephanie Watters and Diane Primrose..."

Pictures?
Why are there never any pictures in the Scotsman Online? All these stories that start "Designs were unveiled yesterday...." or "Two budding artists from a city school ..." and there's never any pictures. There seems to be plenty of space on the screen for adverts though and plenty of blank space down the sides as the Scotsman's web pages are written for ancient 800x600 screens.

Please could the Scotsman join the rest of us in the 21st century.


 

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