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Mon 06 Jun 2007Broadband consumers still need a voiceBusiness Opinion:First let's get the bad pun out of the way. Ireland Offline has gone offline. There, done it. Now we can ask what should we read into the decision of the broadband lobby group to wind itself up? Could it be that high-speed broadband has been delivered to the four corners of the land and Ireland Offline is thus redundant.The answer here is a resounding no, as survey after survey continue to show us lagging an array of countries in the implementation of what is basic economic infrastructure.