In message <[log in to unmask]>, Dr Alan Hassey
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>J.Hearns wrote:
>>
>> > likely to apply -
>> > One off installation charge =A3500
>> > Annual rental (1st 64kbps) =A32000
>> > Annual rental (additional 64k) =A31000
>>
>> Am I correct in assuming that these figures are 500 UKP,
>> and 2000 UKP for rental of a 64 kilobits per second line.
>
>yes - sorry about the translation - should all be UKP
>
>> Domestic users can now get 56kpbs modems on ordinary phone lines!
>> So all of this technology, which we all have such high hopes for (really.
>> No sarcasm intended.) will be run on lines little faster than you can
>> get at home with a box from Dixons!
>> How can we be expected to do all this stuff of EDIFACT, reports, email,
>> Web browsing, X-ray images, pathology images,
>> to some of the biggest Trusts in the land, to the thousands of
>> local surgeries with this sort of bandwidth?
>
>They try to sell it on the basis of all the valuable services ONLY
>available on NHSnet
>(at the moment there aren't any....)
I thought GPs were supposed to be thinking about value for money
Am I missing something here?
Mary
Mary Hawking
tel:01582 601289 (home) 01582 663218 (surgery)fax:01582 476488 (surgery)
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