Peter Webb wrote:

"Robm" wrote in message
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Hello,

I will be traveling for about 5 weeks in Australia, one week in Sydney, a
few days in Adelaide, a roadtrip from there to Melborne, a week on
Mornington. I understand that internet cafes tend to be pricey and not
ubiquitous.

Wrong on both counts.

"pricey" is a relative term. If the OP compares internet cafes with
dial-up, as it seems he does, then the former *are* pricey (at least
when comparing Oz internet cafes with Dutch dial-up services; I have no
experience with the reverse).

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How about from a public phone booth, assuming that public phones have modem
plugins (not a good aasumption maybe)?

Public phone?

Pretty much everybody owns a mobile phone; I wasn't aware that public phone
booths still exist.

Sorry, but your implied smiley is a little bit too invisible for the
average foreigner. (OTOH, if you're *not* kidding, then you're rather
uninformed about mobile phone coverage or/and public phone ubiquity in
Oz (Yes, I know that mobile phone coverage is (probably) no problem for
where the *OP* is going, but that's not the/my point. OTTH, he is going
on a "roadtrip" from Adelaide to Melbourne and is a week on Mornington,
whatever/wherever that may be, so it might still be a problem for him as
well.).)

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Frank "About to go where there, luckily, is no mobile phone coverage!" Slootweg