Oftel has suggested five possible options for allowing other operators access to the local loop and is asking for comments from interested parties by March 10. Users crave faster, richer Internet For users such as Professor Stephen Heppell, director of the Ultralab learning technology research centre, faster access with richer multimedia cannot come soon enough. Decent bandwidth can make us cyber athletes. Children use the Internet with enormous creativity and are evolving their media capabilities all the time. It should be an entitlement to be able to use all the multimedia types on the Net and schoolchildren will run to whatever gives the most and lets people have a parity of contribution .
Children are hungry to make that contribution.
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