Comment Re:Telephones just now, eh? (Score 1) 331
1. Alexander Graham Bell was Canadian and invented the telephone in Canada.(that is why politicians have moved to say an American inventor invented it first when he only discovered an equivilent technolagy and did not create the modern implementaion of it)
2.I live in Saskatchewan... 92% the size of Texas with approx. 1 million people living here. We are 95% Rural and the part of the country that Canadians joke about being hick bumkins (Albertans are called gun weilding cowboys). I grew up in a forming comunity of approx 2000 people and I had ATMs, Caller ID, *## functions, Fiber Optic fone lines, Debit (Cheque) Cards, Prepaid phone cards, and High Speed Internet Service (aDSL, DOCSIS, Wireless Broad Specturm Broadcast, ISDN, T1+, and Sattelite (both types) several years before most of the US and Europe. Many of the 'Features that you get with your phone services were developed in whole or in part in Canada through companies like NorTel (Northern Telecom) and the Canada Bells. Abouth the only thing it is taking loger to get than other contries is proper celular service because there is so much land to cover for so few people.
3.WE DON'T ALL SAY EH!!! That is an affectaion of a certain area of the country in the east. The majority of the country does not say that. Nor do we say "a-boot". [mumble grumble razam frazm]
2.I live in Saskatchewan... 92% the size of Texas with approx. 1 million people living here. We are 95% Rural and the part of the country that Canadians joke about being hick bumkins (Albertans are called gun weilding cowboys). I grew up in a forming comunity of approx 2000 people and I had ATMs, Caller ID, *## functions, Fiber Optic fone lines, Debit (Cheque) Cards, Prepaid phone cards, and High Speed Internet Service (aDSL, DOCSIS, Wireless Broad Specturm Broadcast, ISDN, T1+, and Sattelite (both types) several years before most of the US and Europe. Many of the 'Features that you get with your phone services were developed in whole or in part in Canada through companies like NorTel (Northern Telecom) and the Canada Bells. Abouth the only thing it is taking loger to get than other contries is proper celular service because there is so much land to cover for so few people.
3.WE DON'T ALL SAY EH!!! That is an affectaion of a certain area of the country in the east. The majority of the country does not say that. Nor do we say "a-boot". [mumble grumble razam frazm]
