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Zeity: you SHALL have internet access @ home

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    Zeity: you SHALL have internet access @ home

    £98 PCs target UK digital divide

    Low-cost computers are to be offered as part of a government scheme to encourage millions of people in the UK to get online for the first time.

    Prices will start at £98 for a refurbished PC, with subsidised net connections available for £9 a month. The 12-month trial is part of the Race Online 2012 scheme, which aims to reach out to the 9.2 million adults in the UK who are currently offline.

    Distributor Remploy hopes to sell 8,000 machines in the next 12 months.

    Race Online 2012, which aims to "make the UK the first nation in the world where everyone can use the web", estimates that of the more than nine million adults in the UK who are currently not online, four million are socially and economically disadvantaged.

    The cheap computers will run open-source software, such as Linux, and will include a flat-screen monitor, keyboard, mouse, warranty, dedicated telephone helpline and delivery.
    Haven't we heard something like this before?
    My all-time favourite Dilbert cartoon, this is: BTW, a Dumpster is a brand of skip, I think.

    #2
    Ok so its Remploy which means not valid as a business model and more of a scheme to give people jobs.

    So that's £98 to the consumer and £500 to the public purse.

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      I'm still waiting for the Indian made $35 Google Android tablet that we saw touted a few months back.
      bloggoth

      If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
      John Wayne (My guru, not to be confused with my beloved prophet Jeremy Clarkson)

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