Weird and interesting TV facts

[Nuytsia]

DSL, I believe, is the internet we now have. (The kind that comes in through a phone line, but it's a separate phone line from the one for our phones.) Wireless internet also became available a little while ago here, but because of topographical issues it doesn't work well at my house. (I'm equidistant between the towers for two rival companies, so their signals kind of mutually block each other out.)

Yep we don't get DSL here yet - I am 30km from a state capital city..... We have JUST got a wireless broadband option that is at least marginally affordable (still much more expensive and slower than landline broadband option). I think most of Australia has at least SOME way of getting wireless broadband, but it's sometimes very very expensive! I think I am correct in assuming most capital cities have DSL type broadband at reasonable prices. (but how far you can be from the city centre varies widely!)

I think we have pretty much the worst cell phone/internet/etc reception in the commonwealth. (I'm including parts of Africa.) I actually live only 16 km from a reasonably large town, and I don't get cable TV or cell phone reception.

Hehe you MAY have us beaten...... I have just recently got reasonable mobile phone reception (cell phone). A few years ago we didn't get it here OR in the other place where we were renting a house at the time!
(the other side of the capital city, also about 30km away)