>Supposed that you just want some Internet connection at some provider (say Yahoo, WorldOnline, etc.) without ADSL, this takes money too. Before a year ago this was for free (I think throughout the world) and right now this varies by the services you want. For example, at home I still have it for free (i.e. no monthly standard fee) but pay per tick ($c1 per 5 minutes for the weekend ...). No additional normal telehone ticks are charged (though all goes via the normal telephone line). No further restrictions.
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>Others charge $30 monthly but then this includes a connection via the TV-cable (at 10MByte/s -> normal Ethernet). In between these amounts there may be everything like a restriction on MB's downloaded, receiving 10 email addresses (or just one) etc.

Here, according to what the company claimed, we have no additional payments whatsoever, on top of the US$ 108.50 a month (for the 256 Kbps ADSL). This makes it look really cheap. Specifically, the user can download megabytes or gigabytes of games, music, pornography, or whatever, without additional payments - phone, or per MB.

>Working at home on the companies' system really works according to the above, and overhere (Holland) we call this "Teleworking" (okay, "Telewerken" voor jou)...

Well, I should note that while I am officially a citizen of Koninkrijk der Nederlanden, I don't know the language very well. Some basics only. Since it is quite similar to German, I can understand most of it, though. (At home, we talked German a lot - my mother is from Germany).

Hilmar.