Hello Joel, Thursday, February 1, 2007, 4:25:45 PM, you wrote:

What part of Russia do you live in?

Tatarstan. we make Kamaz here :) if you are interested, such situation is very common for Russia - except for Moscow and a few other largest cities, internet costs are very high. you will stop wondering if i say that son of Tatarstan's chief - the richest man in Tatarstan. and he is not a genius - he just own the biggest independent Tatarstan Internet provider, his wealth built from those crazy rates. other businessmen that want to become providers, just don't got appropriate licenses from his father and this situation isn't unique. richest woman in Russia is a wife of Moscow mayor. she build houses in Moscow. you may guess that other builders just don't got licenses/land for their work. as a result, Moscow has highest cost of floor space in the world so Moscow has cheap internet and expensive apartments, and we - vice versa :) btw, all the underdeveloped countries has the same situation with corruption - and this is one of reasons why they are underdeveloped ;)

On Feb 1, 2007, at 1:23 PM, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:

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Hello haskell-cafe,

i've just got ADSL connection here! it's slow (64k) and not cheap, but at least it is completely different from dial-up i've used before

-- Best regards, Bulat mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin@gmail.com