these capabilities is far beyond my budget. I can't understand why England is so far ahead of the U.S. in this regard.

Do you refer here to its inexpensive private Internet access services (like demon)? Apologies if there was an antecedent in previous mail under this subject, but I have now deleted it.

No offense intended, but I always thought of their telecommunications and computing infrastructure as being several years behind the U.S.

What aspect of the UK infrastructure did you perceive as lagging the US ? pvm Ps. I believe that the natural home for this thread isn't on this list.