Summer Travelers Want Broadband

Om Malik, Thursday, August 25, 2005 at 3:07 PM PT Comments (2)

No seriously… As Labor Day approaches, a new survey from Harris Interactive finds that two-thirds (66%) of US adults have taken or will take a vacation this summer … will pay extra for a hotel room with fat pipe … people you are supposed to be on vacation!

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August 26th, 2005
8:33 AM PT
Permanent4 said:

What, you think these people will be WORKING? They’ll be dumping photos onto their Flickr account and downloading a few extra podcasts for the road…

August 27th, 2005
10:03 AM PT
Aswath said:

I guess the next step will be to request an VoIP connection: (link) , especially a one like PhoneGnome that connects to PSTN or IP seamlessly.

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